Chapa, Jose

Jose Chapa

Jose Chapa joins IDP as their Senior Policy Associate, focusing on state policy, legislation and advocacy, and supporting IDP’s local and federal advocacy work. Previously, Jose worked as the legislative campaign coordinator for the Justice for Farmworkers Campaign in New York State.  After a twenty year effort, the Justice for Farmworker Campaign culminated in the passage of the Farmworker Fair Labor Practices Act in June 2019.K. Prior to that, Jose worked as a paralegal and Accredited Representative at the immigration department at Brooklyn Defender Services and the South Texas Pro Bono Asylum Representation Project. Jose is originally from the Rio Grande Valley in Texas and a graduate of Wesleyan University in Connecticut.