Hugo Ivan Salazar

Immigrant Rights Fellow

Fellowship Class 2019

Host agency Al Otro Lado

Location San Diego, CA/ Tijuana, MX

Sponsored by ChangeLawyers℠

Law School Chapman Law

Hugo Ivan Salazar Gonzalez is a ChangeLawyers℠ Fellow working as a Staff Attorney at Al Otro Lado, a human rights and immigration service nonprofit located in Tijjuana, Mexico, San Diego, and Los Angeles. Prior to his time at Al Otro Lado, he was the Policy Director at the Orange County Labor Federation where he developed rapid response immigration services for labor unions and the community. He also was a legal volunteer at Refugee and Immigration Center for Education and Legal Services (RAICES) in San Antonio, Texas and Central American Resource Center in Los Angeles, California. 

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In San Antonio, he helped release refugee families from detention centers and in Los Angeles, he prepared asylum applications and helped prepare them for their asylum cases. Prior to these experiences, Hugo was a United States Department of State, Fulbright Fellow in the Republic of Colombia. There, he studied the effectiveness of combatant integration programs by interviewing former paramilitaries and guerrillas. Prior to Colombia, he was a Coro Leadership Program Fellow in Los Angeles, California where he gained leadership training and experience by working in places like the Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce, Caesar Chavez Foundation, and others.  

He graduated from Chapman University School of Law, and the University of California, Irvine where he received a Bachelor’s Degree with honors in International Studies and Political Science.