Rachel Micah-Jones

Community Advisor

Rachel Micah-Jones is an award-winning leader and attorney on the RESPIRAR community advisory committee. Rachel focuses her work and expertise on reforming international labor recruitment and the H-2A and H-2B guestworker programs to protect low-wage workers.

Rachel is the founder and executive director of Centro de los Derechos del Migrante, Inc. (CDM), the first transnational migrant rights organization based in Mexico and the United States. CDM supports Mexico-based migrant workers by protecting and defending their rights as they move between their home communities in Mexico and workplaces in the United States.

Rachel has built an international coalition on recruitment reform, advocated for workers’ rights in strategic litigation against U.S. government agencies and employers, and testified before international organizations, in U.S. congressional briefings, and before the Mexican Congress.

Rachel’s writing on transnational migrant justice and clinical legal education has been published by the University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law, where she co-led a groundbreaking international clinic for law students.

She graduated from Georgetown University and American University Washington College of Law.