Yailine Velazquez Delgado
YAILINE VELAZQUEZ DELGADO (she/her) is a fourth-year Public Affairs major with a minor in Professional Writing. As an incoming Policy Fellow with the UCLA LPPI Research Department, Yailine is dedicated to advancing social justice, socioeconomic mobility, and labor for immigrant communities and communities of color through comprehensive research and community engagement.
For the past year, Yailine has interned with the California Coalition for Worker Power, where she assists in bridging labor and union organizations to address labor issues affecting marginalized workers statewide through legislative research and lobbying efforts. Previously, Yailine served as a legal counselor for Legal Aid at Work, providing free legal guidance to workers facing precarious workplace conditions. As part of the UC Center Sacramento Program, she interned at the Mexican Consulate of Sacramento, where she researched and published on the relationship between California’s immigrant community and union membership. She is also a former intern for U.S. Senator Laphonza Butler’s Young Leaders Academy. At UCLA, Yailine is a core organizer for Students for Farmworkers, aiming to cultivate knowledge on farmworker issues and student-led initiatives to address these.
Raised in Sacramento, California, her drive for systemic change is rooted in her family’s lived experience as Mexican immigrants.
