Nancy Cervantes

Adjunct Externship Professor

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ncervantes@law.usc.edu
Phone: (213) 740-9930
Fax: (323) 544-6100
Room: 16

Nancy Cervantes '89 is long time public interest attorney specializing in the rights of workers. Cervantes' legal career includes developing the prototype for day laborer advocacy and programs across the nation, directing the Immigrant Workers' Rights project at Public Counsel, serving as in house counsel for the Justice for Janitors campaign, leading policy advocacy at the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of L.A., and working as the community organizing director for Los Angeles City Councilmember Jackie Goldberg.

Cervantes spent the last five years as a managing attorney at Neighborhood Legal Services of L.A. County. She was honored with the USC Law Public Interest Law Foundation’s Outstanding Graduate award in 1997 and with the Liberty Hill Founders’ Award in 1995. She was also profiled as an “alumni in public service” in the Spring 2006 USC Law Magazine.

Cervantes joined the Office of Public Service in Fall 2007 as an adjunct externship professor.