Elena Lavarreda
Elena Lavarreda is the Statewide Organizer with the Immigrant and Worker Rights center, Voces de la Frontera, and the Wisconsin Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights. While organizing with Voces and WNIRR she has worked on such issues as the fight to protect In State Tuition Rights for undocumented students in the 2011-12 Biennial State Budget and opposing Wisconsin's AZ copycat bill, AB173. Prior to working with Voces and WNIRR, Elena lived in Massachusetts and worked as a Research Associate at the Prison Policy Initiative, where she researched and documented the effects of prison-based gerrymandering on democracy at the local and state level.
AUGUST 24-28, 2011
Downtown Campus of Madison College and the Concourse Hotel
MADISON, WISCONSIN
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