Scholar Profile

Glenda Aldana Madrid

Law

Biography

Glenda is a staff attorney in the Impact Litigation Unit at the Northwest Immigrants’ Rights Project in Seattle, where she litigates civil rights cases on behalf of immigrants and also represents them before the immigration courts and U.S. Citizenship & Immigration Services. Her current caseload includes challenges to third-country deportations (DVD v. DHS), the birthright citizenship executive order, and denial of bond hearings for certain immigrants in immigration detention. She joined NWIRP as a Gruber Fellow in Global Justice and Women’s Rights in 2013, following her graduation from Yale Law School.

Before law school, she was a program director for the NYC-based Human Rights Foundation. Glenda was also a member of the team that put together the inaugural Oslo Freedom Forum. She earned her bachelor’s degree in Social Studies with a citation in French from Harvard in 2007, from which she graduated Magna Cum Laude and Phi Beta Kappa.

Glenda is originally from Guatemala and moved to LA when she was 9; she spent the rest of her formative years in South Gate, CA, before making the trek out east. Glenda lives in Seattle with her 7-year-old daughter Evaluz, her husband Antonio, and their cat Zuki.

High school:  South Gate High School

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