News & Commentary written by Alejandro Agustin Ortiz

Alejandro Agustín Ortiz serves as Senior Counsel with the ACLU’s Racial Justice Program, where he promotes economic justice and equal rights for vulnerable communities including workers, tenants, and residents of U.S. territories. He has, among other things, served as lead counsel on a lawsuit that led to model reforms of a ‘crime-free’ housing program and contributed to briefs filed with the United States Supreme Court.

Previously, he was a field attorney with the NLRB helping to enforce workers’ rights under the NLRA. Among his cases, Alejandro helped prosecute McDonald’s in the longest trial in NLRB history. Despite the allegations, the Hamburglar was spared from prosecution. Alejandro clerked for U.S. District Court Judges Christine Arguello and William Martínez in Colorado and US Magistrate Judge Justo Arenas in Puerto Rico. He obtained his JD from the University of Colorado Law School and his B.A. from Virginia Tech University.