News & Commentary written by Jonathan Blazer

Jonathan Blazer is a Senior Advisor in ACLU’s National Political Advocacy Department, where he focuses on state-level immigration policy and on building out the ACLU’s Know Your Rights program across issues areas. Jon returned to ACLU in 2020, as the organization’s first Director of Border Strategies, after working as a Senior Program Officer at the Four Freedoms Fund and serving as California Attorney General Xavier Becerra’s immigration advisor. Previously, he worked for twelve years in related positions at the ACLU and the National Immigration Law Center (NILC), engaging in or supporting hundreds of battles for immigrants’ rights at the state and local levels, while also working to connect these fights to federal advocacy efforts and longer-term strategies for social change. He started his legal career working as a legal aid attorney for six years in Philadelphia, where he founded the Language Access Project of Community Legal Services. Jon is based in ACLU’s San Francisco office.