Yvette Borja is the Laura E. Gómez Teaching Fellow on Latinx People and the Law at UCLA School of Law and will teach Latinx People and the Law. Her research is focused on movement lawyering, abolition, and immigration law. She previously worked as a movement lawyer at the National Day Laborer Organizing Network where she led the National TPS Alliance’s legal strategy to further its campaign goal of permanent residency for all Temporary Protected Status-holders.

Borja received her B.A. with distinction in the American Studies major at Yale University and her J.D. at Stanford Law School. She was an editor of the Stanford Law Civil Rights and Civil Liberties journal and received the John Hart Ely Prize for Outstanding Performance in Law and Continental Thought.

Borja’s publications have appeared in Balls and Strikes, and the Huffington Post, among others. She is the host and producer of the Radio Cachimbona podcast, which has been featured by Apple Podcasts for Latinx Heritage Month and Women's History Month.