Nina Perales ’87 is vice president of litigation for MALDEF, the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund, where she supervises the legal staff and litigation in offices across the United States. She is best known for her work in voting rights: She tried and argued successfully before the Supreme Court of the United States a challenge to Texas redistricting that resulted in that court’s first ruling of Latino vote dilution under the Voting Rights Act. She currently serves as an adjunct professor at Harvard Law School, where she teaches a course called Current Topics in Latino Civil Rights.
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Class of 1987