Bio
Carmen Iguina González is Deputy Director for Immigration Detention of the ACLU National Prison Project, where she plans, manages, and helps direct litigation efforts and strategy on issues related to immigration detention. Her experience includes litigation of groundbreaking civil rights matters across a broad range of issues, including immigrants’ rights, criminal justice, reproductive freedom, and the rights of incarcerated people.
Carmen held previous roles at the ACLU, including as a Senior Staff Attorney at the ACLU Immigrants’ Rights Project and as an Equal Justice Works Fellow and Staff Attorney at the ACLU of Southern California. Carmen was also the Director of the Civil Rights Clinic at the Howard University School of Law and co-taught the Civil Rights Appellate Clinic at the University of Minnesota Law School. Prior to returning to the ACLU, Carmen worked in private practice as Counsel at a litigation boutique where she handled complex civil and criminal matters.
Carmen clerked for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor, Judge Stephen Reinhardt of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and Judge Kiyo Matsumoto of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York. Carmen graduated magna cum laude from Harvard University and New York University School of Law, where she was a Root-Tilden-Kern Scholar. She has received several awards for her work, including Hispanic Attorney of the Year from the Hispanic Bar Association of the District of Columbia, a California Lawyer of the Year Award in Immigration Law, an American Immigration Lawyers Association Jack Wasserman Memorial Award, and a Top Lawyers Under 40 Award from the Hispanic National Bar Association.