Evelyn Rangel Medina

Evelyn is an experienced organizer, movement lawyer, public policy advocate, and campaign manager who has worked with a broad range of nonprofit organizations and cross-sector coalitions to advance lasting social change. She is currently Co-Director of the National Tipped Workers Legal Resource Center at Restaurant Opportunities Centers-United (ROC-United). She also directs the Bay Area Center at ROC-United, where she organizes workers and advocates for higher labor standards at the local and state level. She previously Co-Founded, Sage Consulting, a women of color social change and capacity building firm. She also served as Policy Director for the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights in Oakland, California and Co-Founded the United Coalition for Immigrant Rights in Las Vegas, Nevada.

 Evelyn migrated to the United States as a child, grew up undocumented, and is the first person in her family to go attend college. She graduated from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas magna cum laude with B.A.’s in Literature, Women’s Studies and Political Science: Public Policy & International Relations. She attained her J.D. from the University of California, Berkeley School of Law, where she was awarded a Phoenix Fellowship, an American Jurisprudence Award, the Francine Diaz Social Justice Memorial Award, and was named a U.C. Berkeley Public Interest Law Fellow.