The Disability Rights Legal Center (DRLC) is pleased to announce the appointment of Alegría De La Cruz this month to the role of Director of Litigation.
Prior to her role at DRLC, Alegría served as the founding Director of the Sonoma County Office of Equity, addressing racial disparities in health, wealth, and wellbeing in the County. She previously led critical work at the Dolores Huerta Foundation, the State of California, Agricultural Labor Relations Board, the Center on Race, Poverty & the Environment, and California Rural Legal Assistance, where she fought environmental injustice affecting the region’s farmworkers.
Alegría holds a Bachelor of Arts from Yale University and a JD from the University of California Berkeley School of Law. She embraces the responsibility to contribute meaningfully to public service, social justice, and equity.
“We are delighted to welcome Alegría to the team as Director of Litigation,” said Michael McDonough, Chairof DRLC’s Board of Directors. “Alegría’s decades-long commitment to social justice speaks for itself, in the excellence and fierceness that she brings to her work. On behalf of DRLC’s Board of Directors, I look forward to the capable leadership that she will bring to the Civil Rights Litigation Program.”
“Alegría has shown such a strong history of defending what is right and cultivating a more equitable and just future,” Sylvia Torres-Guillén, DRLC President and CEO, said. “She represents the deepest core values that DRLC was built on at its founding in 1975, as well as the zeal and eagerness that our team is bringing into our 50th year. We are honored to have someone as skilled, fierce, and dedicated as Alegría at the forefront of our mission for transformative, lasting change for people with disabilities nationwide.”
