Rodrigo Camarena

Rodrigo Camarena is the Director of Justicia Lab, Pro Bono Net’s immigrant justice technology lab, and a nonprofit legal tech initiative whose mission is to transform immigrant justice through collaboration, creativity, and technology. 

Justicia Lab works hand in hand with immigrants and their advocates to identify common challenges and incubate scalable digital tools to advance help immigrants navigate the immigration system, find workplace justice, and more. Justicia Lab has developed over a dozen immigrant justice legal tools to scale and support the work of advocates and bridge the justice gap, helping over 500,000 people find critical immigration information and relief. In April Justicia Lab launched JusticiaLab.AI, the world’s first non-profit AI lab for immigrant justice.

Rodrigo was formerly Strategy Director at Purpose where he developed digital products for international NGOs and social enterprises. Prior to Purpose, Rodrigo developed new initiatives to tackle economic inequality as Executive Director of Business Growth Programs for the City of New York. Rodrigo is also the former Executive Director of the Mixteca Organization - an immigrant rights organization based in Sunset Park Brooklyn. He holds degrees in Economics from New York University and the London School of Economics.

Keynote Talk Title: "Accelerating Advocacy: AI for Immigrant Justice"