Board of Directors
Michael Wampold
Board Chair
Partner
Peterson Wampold Rosato Feldman Luna
1st Vice Chair
Norma Cantú
Professor of Law and Education
University of Texas at Austin
UT School of Law
2nd Vice Chair
Irma Rodriguez-Moisa
Partner
Atkinson, Andelson, Loya, Ruud, & Romo
3rd Vice Chair
Stella M. Flores
Associate Professor Department of Educational Leadership and Policy
University of Texas at Austin College of Education
Secretary / Treasurer
Fiscal & Investment Committee Chair
Jeffrey Garcia
Vice President
Capital Group
Governance & Nominations Chair
Jorge A. Herrera
Attorney
The Herrera Law Firm
Audit Committee Chair
Luis Ricardo Fraga
Rev. Donald P. McNeill, C.S.C.,
Professor of Transformative Latino Leadership
Director, Institute for Latino Studies
Institute for Latino Studies
Development Committee Chair
Raul Lomeli-Azoubel
Executive Chairman & Co-Founder
SABEResPODER
Program & Planning Chair
R. Omar Riojas
President
Sea Mar Community Health Centers
MPMC Chair
Loretta P. Martinez
Chief Legal Counsel
University of New Mexico
President & General Counsel
Thomas A. Saenz
Members
Yolanda Camarena
Board Member
Kansas Hispanic Education and Development Foundation; Board of Trustees, Newman University, Chair of the Schools and Scholarship Committee of Harvard College
Norma Cantú
Professor of Law and Education
University of Texas at Austin
UT School of Law
Elisa de la Vara
Former Chief Community Officer
Arizona Community Foundation
Stella M. Flores
Associate Professor Departmentof Educational Leadership and Policy
University of Texas at Austin College of Education
Luis Ricardo Fraga
Rev. Donald P. McNeill, C.S.C.,
Professor of Transformative Latino Leadership
Director, Institute for Latino Studies
Institute for Latino Studies
Jeffrey Garcia
Vice President
Capital Group
Emilio Gonzalez
Executive Director, Public Policy & Strategic Alliances
Verizon
Jorge A. Herrera
Attorney
The Herrera Law Firm
Raul Lomeli-Azoubel
Executive Chairman & Co-Founder
SABEResPODER
Elizabeth V. Lopez
Chief of Staff to the President & Senior Managing Counsel –
Global Competition and Alliances
United Airlines, Inc.
Elena Lopez-Gusman
Executive Director
California ACEP
Vilma S. Martinez
Former U.S. Ambassador and MALDEF President
Tom Reston
R. Omar Riojas
President
Sea Mar Community Health Centers
Irma Rodriguez Moisa
Partner
Atkinson, Andelson, Loya, Ruud, & Romo
Antonia Roybal-Mack
Partner
Roybal-Mack & Cordova PC
Jose Sanchez
Senior Managing Director
Deloitte
Carlos R. Soltero
Partner
Soltero Sapire Murrell PLLC
Michelle Tellez
Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies
The University of Arizona
Gilbert Vasquez
Vasquez + Company LLP
Michael Wampold
Partner
Peterson Wampold Rosato Feldman Luna
As Donald Trump passed 500 days in the White House earlier in June, the parameters of the administration’s approach to critical issues of concern to the Latino community have become even clearer. After 500 days, Trump has failed to nominate a single Latino to a federal court of appeals vacancy. After 500 days, Trump has continued regularly to demonize, with false facts and vile rhetoric, all immigrants, particularly Latino immigrants. After 500 days, Trump has embarked on a federal policy of violently separating minor children from their refuge-seeking parents in the name of “zero tolerance.” After 500 days, Trump seeks to expand family detention, an inhumane abomination, and continues to demand that United States taxpayers pay for an ineffective and unnecessary wall at the southern border. After 500 days, Trump still champions a discriminatory Muslim ban, securing a bare-majority Supreme Court ruling allowing the continued influence of bigotry in immigration policy, which has historically harmed Latinos more than anyone else. After 500 days, the Trump administration has proven to be the most anti-Latino presidential administration in our history.
After 500 days under this administration of our own work to forge a different path for our nation, MALDEF continues to strive, in court and out, to promote civil rights and constitutional values. To resist and to lead. Below, we highlight just a few of our activities to promote the right to vote and to defend our national principles of fairness and equity in treatment of all immigrants. Work like that described below will continue and expand as MALDEF fulfills its unique role – to be the legal voice that helps to enable the Latino community, despite efforts of the Trump administration to prevent many of us from even being counted in the decennial Census, to lead our nation to a more promising future of inclusion and equity.