Rocio L. Córdoba is Co-Founder and Executive Director of California Latinas for Reproductive Justice (CLRJ). She has served as a reproductive justice, gender equity and civil rights attorney and advocate on the national, state and local levels for over 18 years. Rocio was appointed by Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa to serve on the Los Angeles Commission on the Status of Women, where she was elected Vice-President for two terms. Rocio served two terms as President of the California Coalition for Reproductive Freedom (CCRF) and continues to serve on CCRF’s Executive Committee, where she has sought to promote the advancement of a Reproductive Justice framework and inclusion of communities of color in its membership, advocacy and policy priorities. She is a Founding Team member of EMERJ (Expanding the Movement for Empowerment and Reproductive Justice) and serves on the national SisterSong Women of Color Reproductive Health Collective’s Management Circle, the National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health Policy Advisory Committee, CSULA’s Center for the Study of Genders and Sexualities Advisory Board, the Fresno Regional Foundation Teen Pregnancy Prevention Initiative Advisory Committee, and served as a Mentor to the Women’s Foundation of California’s Women’s Policy Institute, among other leadership positions.

Most recently, Rocio served as Director of Public Affairs for UCLA’s Institute for Democracy, Education & Access (IDEA). Previously, Rocio served as a Staff Attorney with the ACLU of Southern California and as Director of its pilot Latina Rights Project; handled reproductive rights litigation and advocacy on the national level as a Staff Attorney with NOW Legal Defense and Education Fund and as a Staff Attorney Fellow with the ACLU's National Reproductive Freedom Project, both in New York; and served as the Kennedy/Coleman Fellow with the ACLU of Illinois in Chicago. She received her J.D. from the University of California’s Hastings College of Law and B.A. degrees from the University of Southern California.

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