Eduardo García

Eduardo García is an attorney at Erie Neighborhood House in Chicago, Illinois. He received his B.A. in history in 2007 and M.A. in history in 2010, both from the University of Texas at El Paso. Eduardo graduated from the UNM School of Law in 2018. He was an Equal Justice Works Fellow at the New Mexico Immigrant Law Center in Albuquerque, New Mexico. During law school, Eduardo was a judicial clerk at the Pueblo of Isleta Appellate Court and was the recipient of the Peggy Browning Labor Law Fellowship hosted by the New Mexico Center on Law and Poverty. He has served as the director and faculty for the Marshall-Brennan Constitutional Literacy Project at the UNM School of Law and has served as a board member of the Immigration Law Section of the State Bar of New Mexico.

Eduardo is a native of the Juárez, México-El Paso, Texas borderland where he experienced the complexities of the border and became involved in community organizing and activism. He became involved in the struggle for justice in support of immigrants, farmworkers, day laborers, and retail and service industry workers. His interest in law includes the intersection between immigrants’ and workers’ rights and in social and economic justice, including access to healthcare.