Kevin Herrera, Esq.

Kevin Herrera, Esq. is Legal Director at Raise the Floor Alliance, where he works in collaboration with organizers at seven worker centers to defend and advance the rights of communities working in low wage industries through litigation, policy advocacy, and popular education. His work focuses on ending the exploitation of workers and full access to civic life for immigrants while fighting surveillance, the carceral state, and deportation. Herrera previously worked at the Shriver Center on Poverty Law, the National Immigration Law Center, and Just Futures Law.

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In addition to serving on the board of the East Coast Migrant Head Start Project, he has served as a Board member with the Chicago Freedom School, a youth-led organization that develops actionable strategies for social change by training and educating young people and adult allies in the tactics needed to create a just world. Kevin received his law degree from the New York University School of Law, his Master's degree in International Affairs from the University of Georgia, and his B.A. in Political Sciences and Chicano Studies from the University of Minnesota.

 

Kevin is the proud son of immigrant farmworkers and continues his commitment and connection to the farmworker communities through his professional commitments and his Board service with East Coast Migrant Headstart Project.