About Me

Biography

Hello! I’m Bill. I’m a writer, immigrant rights advocate, and JD/PhD candidate at Yale Law School and the University of Oxford. My research and advocacy focus on due process and access to justice, and the role that movement lawyering plays in advancing systemic change.

I’ve spent over a decade documenting the lived experiences of immigrant families along the U.S.-Mexico Border. During this time, I’ve also worked for a member of U.S. Congress, the Center for Law and Social Policy, the Maine Volunteer Lawyers Project, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the Pima County Administrator’s Office, the National Immigration Project of the National Lawyers Guild, and the Pima County Public Defender’s Office.

As a student at Yale, I devote most of my time to the Worker Immigrant and Rights Advocacy Clinic, where I represent clients against deportation. As a doctoral candidate at Oxford, I study the role punishment has played, legally and sociologically, in shaping the contemporary development of U.S. immigration law and policy.

Prior to my doctoral studies, I earned master’s degrees in Migration Studies and in Criminology and Criminal Justice as a Marshall Scholar at Oxford. I also have a dual bachelor’s in Sociology and Latin American Studies from Bowdoin College, where I was named the 2016 National Hispanic Scholar of the Year, a Harry S. Truman Scholar, and a John Lewis Fellow.

Thank you for visiting and exploring my website. Here, you can learn more about me, the experiences that motivate my work, my current projects, as well as the play and theatrical movie inspired by my family’s story. If you’d like to get in touch, please visit my contact page.

All my best,

Bill