Monica Andrade

Monica Andrade is the Director of State Policy and Legal Initiatives for the Presidents’ Alliance, where she coordinates its state policy agenda related to undocumented students and other immigrant populations in higher education. Prior to joining the Presidents’ Alliance, Monica was the Immigrant Rights Staff Attorney at the ACLU of Michigan where she litigated high-impact civil rights cases focused on immigrants’ rights in state and federal courts and advocated for policies to protect such rights. Monica is the co-author of “The Border’s Long Shadow: How Border Patrol Uses Racial Profiling and Local and State Police to Instill Fear in Michigan’s Immigrant Communities.” The report was the first of its kind investigation of Border Patrol’s Michigan operations and resulted in statewide policy changes and safeguards identified in the report. Prior to law school, Monica was a case worker at an in-custody substance abuse treatment and education program in Flagstaff, Arizona where she worked