Joel Marrero is currently an Assistant Attorney General with the New York State Office of the Attorney General, Civil Rights Bureau, where his docket includes police department pattern and practice, fair housing, language access in voting, and education rights cases.  Previously, Joel was a staff attorney at the Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund ("MALDEF") where he litigated cases in the areas of education and immigrants rights and investigated conditions of immigrant confinement that impacted transgender and gender non-conforming people.  Prior to MALDEF, he was a staff attorney at the Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles where he developed and litigated housing rights impact cases and a staff attorney where he litigated numerous fair housing suits involving race, national origin, sex, familial status, and disability discrimination.  He is a 2010 graduate from the UCLA School of Law where he specialized in critical race theory and a 2003 graduate from Columbia College where he double majored in Anthropology and Latino Studies.