Leadership

Maya Mahajan is a 2L at Harvard Law School and current legal extern with ACLU DC. She is interested in civil rights litigation and has worked at various immigration non-profits, the ACLU National Prison Project, and ACLU SoCal’s Police Practices project. At Harvard, she is Co-President of the HLS Immigration Project, La Alianza Public Interest Co-Chair, Co-Director of ACS Supreme Court Moots, and Alumni Director for the Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review.

Jesus Carreon is a 2L from San Bernardino, California. Before Harvard, he worked as an immigration paralegal in California. At Harvard, Jesus is a student-attorney at the Harvard Immigration and Refugee Clinic. This past summer Jesus interned at ACLU SoCal as part of the Immigrants’ Rights Project. Jesus received his B.A. in Law, History, and Culture, and Social Sciences with an emphasis in Psychology from the University of Southern
California.

Olivia is a 3L at Harvard Law School.  She graduated with Honors from Cornell University, where she studied Industrial and Labor Relations and minored in Spanish, Business, and Law & Society. Before law school, she worked at Goldman Sachs. She spent her 1L summer in New York at Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher and her 2L summer at Cravath, Swaine & Moore. At HLS, in addition to HIP, she has participated in the Child Advocacy Clinic and assisted with research in comparative corporate governance.

Julia is a 3L at Harvard Law School. She graduated from Fordham University’s Honors Program, where she majored in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics with minors in Spanish and History. She has worked in plaintiffs’-side employment and civil rights litigation as well as at Skadden, Arps in New York. She is in her second semester as a student attorney in the Harvard Immigration and Refugee Clinic. In addition to HIP, she is Co-Director of ACS Supreme Court Moots and Executive Managing Editor of Student Writing for the Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review.

Bennett is a 3L at Harvard Law School. He graduated from the Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown and spent three years working at JP Morgan before law school. He has  been active in immigration law since arriving at Harvard. He spent 1L working for HIP’s IRAP team, interned his 1L summer at the North Los Angeles Immigration Court, worked for several semesters as a clinical student in the Harvard Immigration and Refugee Clinic at Greater Boston Legal Services, and is a senior research assistant for Professor Deborah Anker’s Law of Asylum treatise.

Alfredo is a third-year student at Harvard Law School. He graduated summa cum laude from the University of Texas at Austin with a BBA in Finance and Accounting. He spent his 1L summer at the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York. Prior to law school, he worked at Wells Fargo in numerous business units including Home Mortgage, Corporate Treasury, and Investment Banking. Before joining Wells Fargo, he interned at an immigration law firm in San Antonio, Texas. On campus, he is also involved with Student Government, Harvard Association for Law and Business, and Harvard Business Law Review. Alfredo is a sports enthusiast and loves spending time with his family.

Annie (she/her) is a 3L committed to working in immigration law. After serving as HIP President last year, she will be planning this year’s spring break pro bono trip. During law school, she has interned on the US-Mexico border and Greek-Turkish border and participated in the Immigration and Refugee Advocacy and Crimmigration Clinics.

Alvin is a 2L from Mexico City who moved to the US for Law School after finishing his bachelor’s  in Political Science and Public Administration at the Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico City. While in college, he worked for three years at a small political, economic, and public policy consulting firm. He was a 1L Summer Associate at Cleary Gottlieb’s New York City office and will be returning there for his 2L summer. He plans to make a career in corporate law and devote most of his pro-bono work to immigration cases. Alvin is also the Community Chair of La Alianza at Harvard Law School and a member of the Harvard Immigration and Refugee Clinic.

Carolina is a 3L at Harvard Law School who was born and raised in Barranquilla, Colombia but moved to Miami, FL at eight years old. She graduated from Duke University in 2019, where she majored in Public Policy and minored in Cultural Anthropology and Computer Science. Before starting law school, she participated in the SEO program and spent the summer working at in LA at Gibson Dunn and returned there for her 1L summer. She spent her 2L summer at Latham and Watkins and will be returning there after graduation. At HLS, she has also served as an executive board member of La Alianza and is currently the managing editor for the Harvard Latin American Law Review

Cindy Zapata is a Clinical Instructor in the Harvard Immigration and Refugee Clinical Program. She supervises and trains students in the Harvard Immigration and Refugee Clinic (HIRC) and in the Crimmigration Clinic. As part of HIRC, she supervises and trains law students working on applications for asylum and other humanitarian protections. In the Crimmigration Clinic, she focuses mainly on direct representation, including bond representation and immigration applications. She coordinates various community outreach efforts, including Know-Your-Rights presentations and Advice and Counsel sessions in the greater Boston area. She also serves as the supervising attorney for the HLS Immigration Project (HIP), a student-practice organization at HLS focused on immigration-related efforts and advocacy. She was previously a litigation associate at Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP. She holds a J.D. from UC Berkeley School of Law, and a B.A. in Political Science from Queens College – CUNY.