Marielena Hincapié
Pro-immigrant Legal & Political Strategist
Marielena Hincapié served as the executive director of the National Immigration Law Center (NILC) and the NILC Immigrant Justice Fund (IJF) until November Marielena began her tenure at NILC in as a staff attorney leading its labor and employment program. She successfully litigated law reform and impact-litigation cases dealing with the intersection of immigration laws and employment/labor laws. After serving as director of programs, Marielena became NILC’s executive director. Under her leadership, NILC and the IJF strategically combined litigation, policy, communications, narrative change, and movement-building to effect transformational change.
Marielena is a nationally respected leader, legal and political strategist, and a leading voice in the national conversation on immigrants. A seasoned strategist and bridge builder, she co-led the transformational Immigrant Movement Visioning Process resulting in a long-term vision grounded in racial, economic, and gender justice and equity. She co-chaired the Biden Campaign’s Unity Taskforce on Immigration, and helped lead the n
Marielena Hincapié is a Distinguished Immigration Fellow and Visiting Scholar at Cornell University’s Immigration Law and Policy Program.
Most recently, Marielena served as the executive director of the Los Angeles-based National Immigration Law Center (NILC) and the NILC Immigrant Justice Fund (IJF) until November Marielena began her tenure at NILC in as a staff attorney leading the organization’s labor and employment program. During that time, she successfully litigated law reform and impact litigation cases dealing with the intersection of immigration laws and employment/labor laws. She then served as NILC’s director of programs from to , after which she became executive director.
Marielena is a nationally respected leader, legal and political strategist in the social justice movement, and a leading voice in the national conversation on immigration. She played a key role in supporting youth leaders in the creation and successful implementation of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) and cofounded the Protecting Immigrant Families (PIF) coalition to address the chilling effect the public charge rule had on children and families needing health, nutrition, housing and
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Marielena Hincapié is a Distinguished Immigration Fellow and Visiting Scholar at Cornell University’s Immigration Law and Policy Program.
Most recently, Marielena served as the executive director of the Los Angeles-based National Immigration Law Center (NILC) and the NILC Immigrant Justice Fund (IJF) until November Marielena began her tenure at NILC in as a staff attorney leading the organization’s labor and employment program. During that time, she successfully litigated law reform and impact-litigation cases dealing with the intersection of immigration laws and employment/labor laws. She then served as NILC’s director of programs from to , after which she became executive director.
Marielena is a nationally respected leader, legal and political strategist in the social justice movement, and a leading voice in the national conversation on immigration. She played a key role in supporting youth leaders in the creation and successful implementation of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) and cofounded the Protecting Immigrant Families (PIF) coalition to address the chilling effect the public charge rule had on children and families needing health, nutritio
Marielena Hincapié
Marielena Hincapié grew up as the youngest of 10 children in a working-class family that immigrated to the U.S. from Colombia. As a child, she would often serve as an interpreter, helping her parents and their co-workers navigate schools, hospitals, and government agencies, where she saw the structural barriers and inequities facing immigrants and people of color firsthand.
Those experiences set Hincapié on a path to become an attorney, focusing on issues of poverty, labor, and migration. In her current role as the executive director of the National Immigration Law Center, Hincapié has been a key architect of many of the biggest national campaigns for immigrant justice of our time — from challenging the Muslim ban, to protecting Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program recipients.
Today, she is leading NILC through a moment of unprecedented national crisis. “COVID has shown us what many of us already knew, that immigrants are essential,” she says. “Now, we need to co-author a new story of us, which recognizes that immigrants always have been—are—and will continue to be essential to the American story.”
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