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Maribel Medina is a prominent attorney, motivational speaker, and an advocate for equity, diversity and inclusion. \u00a0Coming from an agricultural community where students did not receive the quality education offered in more affluent college prep high schools, Maribel excelled academically. \u00a0She earned a bachelors degree at UC Berkeley, and attended Boalt Hall School of Law and Harvard\u2019s John F. Kennedy School of Government where she earned a JD and MPA, respectively. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Maribel was the <\/span>first <\/span><\/i>MALDEF (Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund), Fried Frank Fellow. \u00a0This Fellowship entails a unique alliance between the nation\u2019s leading Latino civil rights and advocacy organization and a prominent international law firm. \u00a0Her activities and work experience span the gamut from grass roots local organizing and education to policy and enforcement of the law on the national level, including: \u00a0the U.S. Department of Labor, Wage and Hour Division enforcing federal labor laws; the U.S. Department of Justice enforcing the Voting Rights Act; Meyer Nave, where she chaired the Firm\u2019s Education Law practice group; General Counsel of the San Francisco Unified School District \u00a0where she oversaw<\/span> all aspects of the Santa Clara County Office of Education\u2019s legal matters and \u00a0chief legal advisor to the Board of Education and the Superintendent of Schools; <\/span>President of the Mexican-American Bar Association; Assistant City Attorney for Pasadena; and Special Counsel to the Los Angeles Unified School District\u2019s Board of Education. \u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Maribel ranks among the top super lawyers, and was named the \u201cLatina Lawyer of the Year\u201d from the Hispanic National Bar Association and the \u201cBenito Juarez Lawyer of the Year\u201d from the Mexican American Bar Association. \u00a0GOALS is honored to have Maribel Medina as one of its life members.<\/span><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Maribel Medina is a prominent attorney, motivational speaker, and an advocate for equity, diversity and inclusion. \u00a0Coming from an agricultural community where students did not receive the quality education offered in more affluent college prep high schools, Maribel excelled academically. \u00a0She earned a bachelors degree at UC Berkeley, and attended Boalt Hall School of Law […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":154,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[19,17,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-board","category-salutes","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.graduatesorganized.org\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/maribel.jpg?fit=176%2C220&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9cLUf-cl","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graduatesorganized.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graduatesorganized.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graduatesorganized.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graduatesorganized.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graduatesorganized.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=765"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.graduatesorganized.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1235,"href":"https:\/\/www.graduatesorganized.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765\/revisions\/1235"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graduatesorganized.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graduatesorganized.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graduatesorganized.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graduatesorganized.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}