Luz Castro
Luz Castro serves as the Deputy Director of National Policy and Advocacy for the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights (CHIRLA) in Washington D.C. In this role, Luz leads CHIRLA’s federal policy portfolio to help advance the rights of immigrants in California and nationwide.
In an effort to better understand how policies affected her everyday life, Luz grew involved in policy and politics at a very early age. She began her congressional career with the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute (CHCI) where she worked at Congresswoman Linda Sanchez’s office in Washington D.C. Luz also worked as a Field Deputy for Congresswoman Lucille Roybal-Allard where she oversaw the Congresswoman’s education, labor, environment, business, and 2020 Census portfolio. In this capacity, Luz built meaningful relationships with various community-based organizations and worked closely with community leaders to ensure that they play an active role in the legislative process and policy issues that impact their community and quality of life.
Luz is especially passionate about advancing labor rights for immigrants and has walked with workers in their fight for dignity and respect in the workplace. As the daughter of Mexican immigrants, a mother who is a domestic worker, Luz has made it her personal goal to build immigrant worker power helping workers realize that they should not be afraid to speak up and that they too deserve meaningful access to workplace protections- regardless of their immigration status.