CDM Staff

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Rachel Micah-Jones is an attorney and the Founder and Executive Director of Centro de los Derechos del Migrante, Inc., the first transnational migrant rights organization based in Mexico and the United States. An award-winning leader in the migrant and workers’ rights movement, Rachel has focused on reforming international labor recruitment and the H-2A and H-2B guestworker programs to protect low-wage workers. Rachel has built an international coalition on recruitment reform, advocated for workers’ rights in strategic litigation against US government agencies and employers, and testified before international organizations, in US Congressional briefings, and before the Mexican Congress. Rachel’s writing on transnational migrant justice and clinical legal education has been published by the The University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law, where she co-led a groundbreaking international clinic for law students. Rachel is a graduate of Georgetown University and American University Washington College of Law.

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Adelina is an Outreach worker at CDM, based in the Juxtlahuaca, Oaxaca office. Prior to coming to CDM, she worked on an anthropological survey in Guanajuato and served as a consultant in the INEA.

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Adriana is the Finance Director at CDM. She studied Financial Administration at Universidad Autónoma de Aguascalientes (UAA). She has worked in Centro Regional para la Competitividad Empresarial, HSBC, Seguros AIG, and also as an English and flamenco dance instructor. Adriana began working with CDM in 2008.

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Brenda is Director of CDM’s Mexico offices, based in Mexico City. She also coordinates the Proyecto de Mujeres Migrantes (Migrant Women’s Project, or ProMuMi). She completed her studies in International Relations in 2007 at ITESM in Chihuahua, Mexico. Prior to joining CDM, Brenda served as a coordinator of ¡Mexico Infórmate! She is also the cofounder of Observa Ciudadan@, an organization based in Chihuahua Mexico, which promotes transparency. Additionally, she has worked in the Centro de los Derechos de las Mujeres, AC (Center for Women’s Rights) and has volunteered with FUNDESPEN (The Foundation for the Sustainable Development of the Yucatan Peninsula).

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Jessica is CDM’s Legal Director. She graduated from Boalt Hall in 2009, where she was active in the National Lawyers Guild and served as an Executive Editor on the Berkeley Journal of Employment and Labor Law. After graduating from law school, Jessica worked for two years as a Civil Rights Fellow at the class action law firm Goldstein, Demchak, Baller, Borgen & Dardarian. Prior to law school, Jessica worked for three years as a paralegal at Friends of Farmworkers in Philadelphia.

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Lilián is CDM’s Outreach Paralegal. She graduated from Universidad de La Salle Bajío, School of Law. She has a personal and professional interest in human rights and has significant experience working with Mexican and Central American migrants in communities such as Oaxaca, San Luis Potosí, and Matías Romero. Prior to joining CDM, Lilián worked in various organizations to resolve the abuses commonly experienced by migrants as they move through Mexico.

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Dolores is CDM’s accountant. She graduated from the School of Accounting and Administration at Mexico’s National Autonomous University (UNAM). Dolores has more than a decade of experience in accounting and auditing, having worked as an external auditor and a financial and administration consultant. Before joining CDM, Dolores’ worked with telecommunications, construction, and manufacturing companies as well as foundations.

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Sarah graduated from the University of Chicago in 2011 with degrees in History and Latin American Studies. She then moved to Mexico City to study the history of Mexico City’s urban expansion with the support of a Fulbright-García Robles Research Grant. After finishing her project, she joined the CDM team to coordinate the Justice in Recruitment Project.

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Sarah is CDM’s Policy Director. She came to CDM after working as an attorney advisor in the Attorney General’s Honors Program at the Department of Justice. Prior to her experience with the DOJ, she volunteered at CDM in Zacatecas, Mexico, and clerked for the Honorable Robert B. Kershaw of the Baltimore City Circuit Court. During law school, Sarah was the Haywood Burns Memorial Fellow for Social Justice at Farmworker Justice and represented immigrant workers through the International Human Rights Law Clinic. Sarah received her JD from American University Washington College of Law and her BA from Bethel College (Kansas).

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Rebeca is an Outreach worker at CDM, based in the Juxtlahuaca, Oaxaca office. Before joining CDM, Rebeca worked with the Instituto Estatal para la Educación de Adultos (IEEA, State Institution for the Education of Adults) as a consultant, bilingual technician, and as a trainer for the coordination of Santiago, Juxtlahuaca.

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Janet is a Program Associate at CDM. She joined the team in 2013, after graduating from American University with a Master’s in Spanish and Latin American Studies and a Graduate Certificate in Spanish translation. Through her undergraduate and graduate studies, Janet developed a strong personal interest in human rights and social justice, particularly as they relate to migrant workers and immigrants.

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A former Staff Attorney in CDM’s Zacatecas office in 2009-2010, Miriam re-joined CDM as Development Director in March 2015. Miriam worked with CDM in Zacatecas when on leave from Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, LLP, where she was an associate in the Litigation Department. While at Skadden, Miriam worked extensively on pro bono matters – including, most recently, opposing an invasive subpoena served on CDM in a case brought by a Comité member against a fair industry employer. Miriam’s pro bono work also included several wage and hour cases resulting in favorable settlements for immigrant workers. Miriam was an integral member of our legal team in Zacatecas, and was particularly involved with our Fair Workers, Fair Wages! campaign.