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Rachel Micah-Jones is the founder and Executive Director of CDM. Prior to founding CDM, Rachel worked as a farmworker legal services attorney in Florida. She received her JD from the American University Washington College of Law in 2003 and her AB from Georgetown University in 2000.
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Mónica Ramírez is the Acting Deputy Director of CDM, based in the Baltimore, Maryland office. Daughter and granddaughter of migrant farmworkers, Mónica has been a farmworker, anti-sexual violence, women’s and immigrant rights activist for more than 17 years. She is nationally recognized as an expert on workplace sexual violence and other forms of gender discrimination against migrant farmworker and other low-wage immigrant women. Mónica is a graduate of Loyola University Chicago and The Ohio State University’s Michael E. Moritz College of Law.
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Adelina is an Outreach worker at CDM, based in the Juxtlahuaca, Oaxaca office. Prior to coming to CDM, she worked on an anthropological survey in Guanajuato and served as a consultant in the INEA.
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Kristin Love is the Director of CDM’s Mexico City office. She has also worked as a policy attorney, Skadden Fellow, and staff attorney with CDM in Baltimore and Zacatecas and as a staff attorney with an immigrant children’s advocacy organization in Texas. Kristin graduated from the University of Chicago Law School and the University of Chicago.
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Adriana is the Finance Director at CDM. She studied Financial Administration at Universidad Autónoma de Aguascalientes (UAA). She has worked in Centro Regional para la Competitividad Empresarial, HSBC, Seguros AIG, and also as an English and flamenco dance instructor. Adriana began working with CDM in 2008.
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Brenda is an Outreach worker at CDM, based in the Mexico City office. She completed her studies in International Relations in 2007 at ITESM in Chihuahua, Mexico. Prior to joining CDM, Brenda served as a coordinator of ¡Mexico Infórmate! She is also the cofounder of Observa Ciudadan@, an organization based in Chihuahua Mexico, which promotes transparency. Additionally, she has worked in the Centro de los Derechos de las Mujeres, AC (Center for Women’s Rights) and has volunteered with FUNDESPEN (The Foundation for the Sustainable Development of the Yucatan Peninsula).
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Elizabeth is an advocate in CDM’s Baltimore office. She came to CDM from the Fair Food Standards Council, where she monitored and investigated the conditions of tomato farmworkers throughout Florida. Prior to working with farmworkers, Elizabeth was a policy attorney at the National Immigration Law Center. She holds a JD from the University of California, Berkeley School of Law (Boalt Hall) and is licensed to practice law in California. During law school, Elizabeth worked in the East Bay Community Law Center’s immigration clinic and the International Human Rights Law Clinic.
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Jessica is CDM’s Acting Legal Director. She graduated from Boalt Hall in 2009, where she was active in the National Lawyers Guild and served as an Executive Editor on the Berkeley Journal of Employment and Labor Law. After graduating from law school, Jessica worked for two years as a Civil Rights Fellow at the class action law firm Goldstein, Demchak, Baller, Borgen & Dardarian. Prior to law school, Jessica worked for three years as a paralegal at Friends of Farmworkers in Philadelphia.
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Lilián is CDM’s Outreach Coordinator. She graduated from Universidad de La Salle Bajío, School of Law. She has a personal and professional interest in human rights and has significant experience working with Mexican and Central American migrants in communities such as Oaxaca, San Luis Potosí, and Matías Romero. Prior to joining CDM, Lilián worked in various organizations to resolve the abuses commonly experienced my migrants as they move through Mexico.
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Dolores is CDM’s accountant. She graduated from the School of Accounting and Administration at Mexico’s National Autonomous University (UNAM). Dolores has more than a decade of experience in accounting and auditing, having worked as an external auditor and a financial and administration consultant. Before joining CDM, Dolores’ worked with telecommunications, construction, and manufacturing companies as well as foundations.
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Sarah graduated from the University of Chicago in 2011 with degrees in History and Latin American Studies. She then moved to Mexico City to study the history of Mexico City’s urban expansion with the support of a Fulbright-García Robles Research Grant. After finishing her project, she joined the CDM team to coordinate the Justice in Recruitment Project.
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Sarah is a Policy Attorney with CDM. She came to CDM after working as an attorney advisor in the Attorney General’s Honors Program at the Department of Justice. Prior to her experience with the DOJ, she volunteered at CDM in Zacatecas, Mexico, and clerked for the Honorable Robert B. Kershaw of the Baltimore City Circuit Court. During law school, Sarah was the Haywood Burns Memorial Fellow for Social Justice at Farmworker Justice and represented immigrant workers through the International Human Rights Law Clinic. Sarah received her JD from American University Washington College of Law and her BA from Bethel College (Kansas).
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Rebeca is an Outreach worker at CDM, based in the Juxtlahuaca, Oaxaca office. Before joining CDM, Rebeca worked with the Instituto Estatal para la Educación de Adultos (IEEA, State Institution for the Education of Adults) as a consultant, bilingual technician, and as a trainer for the coordination of Santiago, Juxtlahuaca.
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Moravia is CDM’s Communications Associate. She previously worked on immigration and militarization issues as a U.S. policy educator in southern Mexico, as a researcher for a campaign to eliminate toxins in beauty products, and as part of a campaign to promote fair trade chocolate. Moravia has a strong commitment to social justice and, as an immigrant and the granddaughter of former braceros, she has a very personal connection to the issues that CDM works to address.
CDM educates low-wage Mexico-based migrant workers about their legal rights in connection with their employment in the United States.
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