Bethany brings over a decade of experience at the intersection of grassroots organizing, legal empowerment, and movement-building to her role as Community Justice Worker Coordinator at TxILC. As part of TxILC’s Economic Justice Initiative, she supports a dynamic statewide cohort of Community Justice Workers—non-attorney fellows who are expanding access to justice for noncitizen communities across Texas.
Since 2014, Bethany has worked alongside detained immigrants and their loved ones in the fight against incarceration, criminalization, and deportation. She has organized legal accompaniment programs, developed political education curricula, and coordinated campaigns to close detention centers and reallocate public funds away from policing and prisons toward community-driven care. Her work has involved training and mentoring community members and volunteers, mobilizing impacted community members to shift local and state policy, and authoring reports on the criminalization of migration and the influence of private prison lobbying.
