Uriel Saldivar
URIEL SALDIVAR (he/him/el) is entering his last year at UCLA Law and is a Policy Fellow for the LPPI Mobilization Department. He is originally from the Central Valley and is the first in his family to attend college. Uriel enrolled in law school after working on public policy campaigns in Sacramento for four years. He worked with the Community Water Center, a community-based nonprofit, as a senior policy advocate and then-Assemblymember Rob Bonta as a legislative aide. During that time, Uriel worked on various statewide campaigns and coalitions, including spearheading a water affordability campaign that secured $1 Billion dollars in the state budget to address outstanding water debt from the pandemic. Uriel is a returning fellow for the Latino Policy and Politics Institute. He is deeply passionate about the intersections of policy, labor, and environmental justice. In the long run, Uriel wants to advocate for farmworkers in the Central Valley and combat brain drain in the region.
