Nora Preciado is a passionate, visionary social justice leader with almost two decades’ experience advancing immigrant rights. Most recently, Nora directed Mayor Eric Garcetti’s Office of Immigrant Affairs, where she advised the mayor, his staff, city offices and stakeholders on policy and programs relating to Los Angeles’ immigrant residents. As an immigrant, she approached the work from both a personal and professional perspective.
Before that, Nora worked 11 years at the National Immigration Law Center (NILC), rising from staff attorney to supervising attorney focusing on impact immigrant rights litigation. From 2009 to 2012, she taught as an adjunct at Loyola Law School. Before that, Nora worked at the American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California (ACLU), first in the Orange County office where she began her career, and then at the Los Angeles office, handling constitutional rights cases involving immigrants.
Nora is a member of the advisory committee for the National Immigration Litigation Alliance and the Mexican American Bar Association’s immigration committee. She has a law degree from U.C. Berkeley School of Law, a BA in political science from U.C. Davis, and is a proud community college alum. She lives with her family in Orange County.
