Mr. Raymundo E. Rojas
Lecturer
Raymundo Eli Rojas received his Bachelor of Arts from UTEP in 2001. He received his juris doctor from the University of Kansas. While in Kansas, he was active in immigrant advocacy both in Kansas and Missouri and he founded the Kansas City Worker Justice Project, a project that exists to this day and has gained over a million dollars in back wages for low-income workers. Rojas served as executive director of Las Americas Immigrant Advocacy Center from 2007 to 2010 after which he entered private practice focusing on Wage and Hour, Immigration, and Nonprofit Law. Rojas volunteers with the New Mexico Center for Law and Poverty's Homeless Clinic in Las Cruces and serves on the board of the Friends of the El Paso Public Library-Main and the National Latino(a) Law Student Association Alumni Advisory Board. He has done pro bono work for various nonprofits in El Paso including the Diocese Migrant and Refugee Services, Dame La Mano Crisis Pregnancy Center, as well as various churches. Rojas is the founder and current president of the El Paso Immigration Defense Bar and the National Lawyers Guild – El Paso Chapter. He teaches Chicano Legal History in the Chicano Studies Program at UTEP and is the advisor of the UTEP Chicano Pre-Law Society. Rojas has numerous publications in academic journals and wrote a bi-monthly book review of the El Paso Times for many years. He has presented at various academic, legal, and activism conferences
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