27 min
Vol. 34 - Ep. 1: Rochelle Garza's Run for Texas AG Harvard Journal of Hispanic Policy
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Join Victoria Ochoa as she speaks with Rochelle Garza, a civil rights attorney and 5th generation Texan from the Rio Grande Valley currently running for TX Attorney General.
Rochelle has spent her legal career fighting for the civil rights of children, immigrants, and families. She even took on Donald Trump, Ken Paxton, and Brett Kavanaugh when they tried to prevent an immigrant teen, Jane Doe, from exercising her right to choose - and won. Her work has had broad impacts, like the “Garza Notice,” a notification requirement that teens in immigration detention have a constitutional right to access abortion care, and also meaningful individual impacts, like helping Trans clients acquire name and gender marker changes on their documentation to not only affirm who they are but to live a life of safety.
Rochelle graduated from the University of Houston Law Center and from Brown University with honors. She lives in Brownsville with her husband, Adam, and their dog, Ramses. They’re expecting their first child, a daughter, this year.
Join Victoria Ochoa as she speaks with Rochelle Garza, a civil rights attorney and 5th generation Texan from the Rio Grande Valley currently running for TX Attorney General.
Rochelle has spent her legal career fighting for the civil rights of children, immigrants, and families. She even took on Donald Trump, Ken Paxton, and Brett Kavanaugh when they tried to prevent an immigrant teen, Jane Doe, from exercising her right to choose - and won. Her work has had broad impacts, like the “Garza Notice,” a notification requirement that teens in immigration detention have a constitutional right to access abortion care, and also meaningful individual impacts, like helping Trans clients acquire name and gender marker changes on their documentation to not only affirm who they are but to live a life of safety.
Rochelle graduated from the University of Houston Law Center and from Brown University with honors. She lives in Brownsville with her husband, Adam, and their dog, Ramses. They’re expecting their first child, a daughter, this year.
27 min