The Center for HIV Law and Policy, a national leader on HIV policy development, appointed Iván Espinoza-Madrigal as its first legal director. He will oversee the organization’s legal and policy efforts across the country.
The Center for HIV Law and Policy is a national resource and strategy center for HIV advocacy. The organization hosts the only online resource bank focused on HIV law and policy in the United States, and supports the lawyers, legal services providers, and community advocates on whom most people who experience HIV discrimination rely.
Espinoza-Madrigalis a civil rights attorney specializing in legal issues affecting the LGBT community and those living with HIV, particularly in immigration law. His cases have been featured in the New York Times and New York Law Journal.
“He is a sought-after advisor on immigration issues, a visionary advocate with real compassion for the communities we serve,” Catherine Hanssens, executive director of The Center for HIV Law and Policy, said of Espinoza-Madrigal
Most recently, Espinoza-Madrigal worked at Lambda Legal, where he focused on marriage equality, immigration, and issues affecting LGBT and HIV-affected people of color. Previously, he handled MALDEF’s immigrants’ rights docket, including a challenge to Arizona’s immigration law, and a landmark Supreme Court voting rights case.
Espinoza-Madrigal clerked for Judge Clay in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, and Judge Ellis in the U.S. District Court, S.D.N.Y. He received his law degree from NYU School of Law, where he was a Root-Tilden-Kern Scholar, and a BA, summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa, from the University of Pennsylvania. The National LGBT Bar Association has recognized him as one of the Best LGBT Lawyers Under 40.
