Michael Paz

Michael Paz (he/him) is a first-generation college student from Oxnard, California, majoring in English. He is passionate about immigration law and policy. Michael has taken a gap year to work at a small immigration law firm in California, and he has worked with immigration clinics at Harvard and Yale Law Schools. For classes and freelance work, he writes long-form articles about immigration. He is driven by a theory of change that focuses on communicating how law and policy live in people’s lives, capturing in words and images authentic portraits of people. At Yale, he has assumed leadership positions in Yale Mock Trial, co-founded Claro Que Sí, and served as a photo editor for The Yale Daily News. He plans to attend law school before a career of practicing and writing about the law.