Ines Alvarado

Inés Alvarado is serving as a Research and Policy Fellow at LULAC’s National Office in Washington, D.C. in the fall of 2025. Raised in Los Angeles, California, she is a student at the University of California, Berkeley, majoring in Linguistics. Her work is driven by a commitment to language justice, education equity, and policy advocacy—commitments shaped by her lived experience as a system-impacted student leader. At Berkeley, she serves as Advocacy Chair for Underground Scholars, taking on stigma and structural barriers that block educational access and pushing for spaces that don’t just open doors but affirm and empower system-impacted students once they’re inside. In the short term, Inés is focused on sharpening her research and policy skills in Washington, and in the long term, she plans to pursue law school and build a career advancing justice for system-impacted communities.