Angelina Ramirez

Angelina Ramirez is a J.D. Candidate at the University of Texas at Austin School of Law, Class of 2026. She is from El Paso, Texas, and graduated from the University of Texas at Austin in 2022, where she earned a B.A. in International Relations and Global Studies, a Business Spanish Certificate, and a BDP Human Rights and Social Justice Certificate. Angelina is passionate about civil rights and international human rights work. She has participated in pro bono opportunities at Texas Law, such as the Gender Affirmation Project, Expunction Project, SB 4 Family Preparedness Project, and Credible Fear Interview Workshops. She spent the summer after her first year clerking for the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund, where she contributed to MALDEF's litigation in several practice areas, including education, immigrants' rights, employment, and voting rights. In her second year, Angelina was a student attorney in the Immigration Clinic and Civil Rights Clinic, a Public Interest Law Association board member, a Human Rights Scholar for the Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice, and the Chief Notes Editor for the Texas Hispanic Journal of Law and Policy. She will spend the summer after her second year at the Texas Civil Rights Project on the Beyond Borders Team.

Before law school, Angelina worked diligently to contribute to and learn from human rights spaces, especially as a Texas Law Human Rights Clinic intern, Equal Justice Center intern, Clark Center for Australian and New Zealand Studies research assistant, and Barbara Harlow Intern for the Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice.