Angel Herrera

CHCI Public Policy Fellow
Hometown: Magna, Utah
School: University of Utah
Degree: Bachelor of Science in Marketing
Placement: Office of Representative Lou Correa

Angel Herrera (he/him) was raised in Mexico and the United States and is passionate about examining the various systems that impact Latinos in both countries. Drawing from this multicultural upbringing, he constantly asks challenging questions about how our governments and societies can improve the Latino and immigrant experience in the United States.

Angel is grounded in his education in Marketing and Human Rights and Resources from the University of Utah as he builds his career as an advocate. During his undergraduate Justice Advocacy Fellowship with the Tanner Center for Human Rights, he was tasked with improving Latino communications for Comunidades Unidas. This organization is a leading immigrant rights nonprofit in Utah, where Angel worked with its leaders to create strategies to communicate community resources effectively. From this experience, he was selected to represent the University of Utah and advocate for Latinos and immigrants at the University of Oxford’s Consortium for Human Rights in the United Kingdom. He collaborated with an interdisciplinary cohort to present to global human rights leaders on pressing issues affecting Latinos such as climate change, immigration, and healthcare.

During his last academic year, Angel served on the Editorial Board of the Hinckley Journal of Politics to edit the interdisciplinary academic publication. Every year, the journal is delivered to Congressional offices to improve policy initiatives in Utah and across the United States. In addition, Angel spent part of his undergrad at the Kem C. Gardner Policy Institute as an Ivory Policy Scholar. He engaged with policy leaders and stakeholders on Capitol Hill to better understand the role of politics in Latino communities. Through these political advocacy experiences, Angel prioritized embracing public policy and learning about the political realities of Latinos to create sustainable change to U.S. political systems.

As a CHCI Public Policy Fellow, Angel hopes this fellowship will teach him how to advocate for Latinos and immigrant communities at the federal level. He hopes his continued contributions to his communities will inspire others to join him and CHCI in working to improve the systems that affect Latino and immigrant communities.