Senior Attorney, Immigration Impact Lab
Daniel joined CAIR in 2023. He has worked as an attorney alongside migrants and refugees in North Carolina since 2015, helping to empower them to build a more just and democratic community. His work has included direct representation of immigrants from many places across a variety of contexts—from family reunification and naturalization to asylum and removal defense. Most recently, while at the North Carolina Justice Center, he was engaged in impact litigation on behalf of NC’s immigrant population at both the state and federal levels.
Previously, Daniel has interned and worked at a number of NC’s nonprofit immigration legal service providers, as well as performed policy advocacy work and education on behalf of the same. He graduated Magna Cum Laude from Charlotte School of Law, where he was a member of law review and moot court, as well as a member of the Civil Rights Clinic that worked on a number of policy issues ranging from police accountability to housing. Daniel has a number of publications analyzing the political economy of migration in the US.
Daniel is the son of an immigrant and spent part of his childhood growing up in a rural part of the Dominican Republic. He is fluent in Spanish. He is admitted to practice in North Carolina, two of its Federal District Courts, and the Federal District Court of Nebraska. In his free time, he enjoys motorcycles, espresso, and trying in vain to keep up with his two kiddos.
