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Carmen Iguina González is a Deputy Legal Director and Director of its Trone Center for Justice and Equality, which encompasses the ACLU’s work on racial justice, criminal law reform, mass incarceration and the treatment of incarcerated people, and the death penalty. Her experience includes litigation of groundbreaking civil rights matters across a broad range of issues, including criminal justice, racial justice, immigrants’ rights, reproductive freedom, and the rights of incarcerated people.

Prior to assuming her role as Director of the Trone Center for Justice and Equality, Carmen was the Deputy Project Director for Immigration Detention at the ACLU’s National Prison Project, where she oversaw litigation and strategy on issues related to immigration detention. Carmen held previous roles at the ACLU, including at the ÌÒ×ÓÊÓƵImmigrants’ Rights Project and the ÌÒ×ÓÊÓƵof Southern California. Carmen was also the Director of the Civil Rights Clinic at the Howard University School of Law and co-taught the Civil Rights Appellate Clinic at the University of Minnesota Law School. Prior to returning to the ÌÒ×ÓÊÓƵin 2025, Carmen worked in private practice as Counsel at a litigation boutique where she handled complex civil and criminal matters.

Carmen clerked for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor, Judge Stephen Reinhardt of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, and Judge Kiyo Matsumoto of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York. Carmen graduated magna cum laude from Harvard University and New York University School of Law, where she was a Root-Tilden-Kern Scholar. She has received several awards for her work, including Hispanic Attorney of the Year from the Hispanic Bar Association of the District of Columbia, 40×40 Equal Justice Works Alumni Changemaker, a California Lawyer of the Year Award in Immigration Law, an American Immigration Lawyers Association Jack Wasserman Memorial Award, and a Top Lawyers Under 40 Award from the Hispanic National Bar Association.