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Efrén C. Olivares is Vice President of Litigation and Legal Strategy at the National Immigration Law Center. He was the lead lawyer in a successful landmark petition to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights on behalf of families separated under the Zero Tolerance policy. He previously worked at the Southern Poverty Law Center, the Texas Civil Rights Project, and Norton Rose Fulbright LLP. His writings on immigration policy have been published by the New York Times, USA Today, and Newsweek, and he has testified before Congress and at briefings on Capitol Hill about immigration and border policies. Part of his work representing separated families was featured in the CBS News Documentary The Faces of Family Separation, released in October 2019. He has also been interviewed as an expert attorney on immigrants’ rights issues on numerous TV and radio shows. He was named to the 2025 Time 100NEXT list, a compilation of the world's most influential rising stars.
Olivares is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania and Yale Law School.
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