Fall Daynard Roundtable: Linda Rivas, Executive Director and Managing Attorney, Las Americas Immigrant Advocacy Center

“I Would Still Have Come:” A Conversation with Experts and Directly Impacted Migrant Women About the Impact of Border Policies on Their Lives

Fall 2021 Daynard Public Interest Visiting Fellow
LINDA RIVAS
Executive Director and Managing Attorney, Las Americas Immigrant Advocacy Center

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This is a hybrid event. Registration is required and in-person attendance is limited to Northeastern students, faculty and staff. Zoom information will be sent to all registrants.

Linda Y. Rivas was born in Mexico and raised in El Paso, Texas, from the age of 4. Rivas attended The University of Texas at El Paso and completed her studies with a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology with a minor in Legal Reasoning. She attended law school at Loyola College of Law in New Orleans. During law school, Linda clerked with the Department of Justice, Executive Office of Immigration Review under Judge Wayne Stogner.

At the beginning of her career, Rivas advocated for children in the child welfare system as an attorney ad-litem under the supervision of Attorney Thomas Stanton. She went on to become the West Texas VAWA (Violence Against Women’s Act) Manager for the Texas Civil Rights Project in El Paso, Texas until 2014.

Rivas is currently the executive director and managing attorney of Las Americas Immigrant Advocacy Center, a 32-year-old organization dedicated to the legal needs of low-income migrants. Las Americas mission is dedicated to asylum seekers, family reunification and advocating for the dignity and rights of all migrants.