Nancy Cervantes is a longtime public interest attorney specializing in workers rights.  Currently, she works on labor campaigns for the Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy and works as an Adjunct Professor at USC Law School.  She has a long history of fighting for the rights of low income workers.  Her qualifications include: directing the Immigrant Workers' Rights project at Public Counsel, serving as in-house counsel for the Justice for Janitors campaign, serving as a leading policy advocate at the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of L.A., serving as the community organizing director for Los Angeles City Councilmember Jackie Goldberg, and serving as a Managing Attorney at Neighborhood Legal Services of L.A. County, where she oversaw the employment unit.  She received the USC Law School Public Interest Law Foundation Outstanding Graduate award in 1997 and the Liberty Hill Founders’ Award in 1995.