Texas Prison Bid'ness

Krystal Gomez is the Advocacy and Policy Counsel for the ACLU of Texas and staffs the Lower Rio Grande Valley office.  Krystal leads the organization's Immigrant Rights campaign focusing on issues such as Customs and Border Patrol Abuse, conditions of confinement for non-citizens in custody, and the increasing criminalization of immigrants.

Before joining the ACLU of Texas, Krystal worked with the Equal Justice Center recovering unpaid wages for low-income workers.  She received her B.A. in Government and Ethnic Studies from the University of Texas in Austin, during which time she worked as a community organizer in East Austin.  Krystal then earned her J.D. from St. Mary's University School of Law where she received the 2010 Francisco Leos Award for Clinical Excellence for her work in the Immigration and Human Rights Clinic.