Ariana Guerrero

Ariana Guerrero is a J.D. candidate, expected 2027, at the University of Texas at Austin School of Law. Ariana was born in the Rio Grande Valley and raised in Reynosa, Tamaulipas. These experiences along with her family’s continuous fight against biased legal systems have been the center of Guerrero’s advocacy for immigrant justice and intersecting human rights movements. She recently majored in International Relations and Global Studies and Race, Indigeneity and Migration at UT Austin.

Before entering Texas Law, Guerrero worked on immigrants’ rights issues as an intern with a host of Texas-based legal nonprofits (including La Union Del Pueblo Entero (LUPE) in San Juan, the ACLU of Texas in Houston, and the Equal Justice Center in Austin). At the same time, she has engaged on community-based research policy initiatives as a Brumley Next Generation Scholar with the Strauss Center for International Law and Security and through the Mellon Engaged Scholar Initiative at UT Austin. Guerrero aims to continue this work through the vibrant human rights and public service community at Texas Law. She is interested in transnational migrants’ rights and hopes to defend the rights of Latin Americans through impact litigation in US courts and through international human rights advocacy.