PERSON: Alejandro Caraballo

Harvard Law School Cyberlaw Clinic

Clinical Instructor

Alejandra Caraballo (born 1990 or 1991) is an American civil rights attorney and clinical instructor at the Harvard Law School Cyberlaw Clinic. Caraballo is a transgender rights activist and has spoken out against anti-LGBTQ legislation, policies, and rhetoric.

Caraballo was a staff attorney at the LGBTQ Law Project at the New York Legal Assistance Group, representing LGBTQ individuals seeking asylum and other immigrants. She then worked as a staff attorney with the Transgender Legal Defense & Education Fund, focusing on national advocacy.

In 2021, she joined the Cyberlaw Clinic at the Harvard Law School as a clinical instructor. She and another instructor who began teaching the same month were the first trans women of color to teach at the law school. The New York Times described Caraballo as an expert on transgender issues; she has spent years monitoring anti-LGBTQ rhetoric online.

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