Advocates for Children of New York
Julio Gonzalez is a Staff Attorney at Advocates for Children of New York, with previous experience as an Assistant Attorney General Fellow at the Office of the New York State Attorney General. Their background includes work as a Fellow at The Rhizome Center for Migrants and Law Clerk at ACLU's LGBTQ & HIV Project. Julio also served as a Bilingual Early Childhood Teacher at Chicago Public Schools and Corps Member at Teach For America. They hold a JD from the University of Houston Law Center, an MS in Early Childhood Education from Erikson Institute, and dual bachelor's degrees from The University of Texas at Austin.
Advocates for Children of New York
For more than 50 years, Advocates for Children of New York has played an important and unique role in New York's public education community. We focus on the children and youth who are most likely to experience failure or discrimination in school because of poverty, race, disability, language barriers, homelessness, or involvement in the foster care or juvenile justice systems. No other city-wide organization works in the trenches, providing these vulnerable students and their families with the one-on-one guidance and advocacy they need, while at the same time, pressing for systemic reforms that benefit all students, even those who are most challenging to educate. Our efforts on the individual and policy levels inform and strengthen each other, increasing our effectiveness for the communities we serve.