Lorella Praeli lost her leg early on in life when she was run over by a car at the age of two. This however has never slowed her down, and in fact given her a drive to fight for those less fortunate.
A freedom fighter, movement builder, and policy advocate, Lorella is the ACLU’s Deputy National Political Director and Director of Immigration Policy and Campaigns. Most recently, she was the National Latino Vote Director for Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign and prior to joining that campaign, Lorella served as Director of Advocacy and Policy of United We Dream, the country’s largest immigrant youth-led organization, where she led the advocacy campaign to implement DACA.
Lorella immigrated from Ica, Peru to New Milford, Connecticut with her family at the age of ten, where she grew up undocumented. Lorella graduated summa cum laude with a B.A. in Political Science and Sociology from Quinnipiac University, and she then got her start in Connecticut, where she co-founded and directed CT Students for a Dream and led the organization’s efforts to pass and implement tuition equity for undocumented students.
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