Angelo Ancheta

director, Advocacy Programs, Civil Rights Project

Professor Ancheta's teaching and research focuses on constitutional law, civil rights, racial discrimination, and immigrants' rights. Prior to his academic career, he was a legal services and civil rights attorney, and specialized in immigration law and appellate advocacy. From 1994 to 1998, he was the executive director of the San Francisco-based Asian Law Caucus, and was previously a staff attorney at nonprofit legal services organizations in both Northern and Southern California.