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Ms. Rios joined the Ford Foundation in 2002.
She was previously litigation director at the Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund, where she focused on environmental justice, language rights, bilingual education, housing discrimination, immigrant rights and other areas.
She also served as executive director of the National Employment Law Project, litigating and advocating on behalf of low-wage workers, and as associate counsel at the Center for Constitutional Rights.
Ms. Rios attended the University of Toledo in Ohio, where she received both a J.D.
and a bachelor's degree in political science.
Over the course of her career, she has testified before committees of the Organization of American States and the United Nations about human rights abuses and the need to place issues of racial discrimination in the United States within a broader global context.
Former positions of Sara E. Ríos
| Companies | Position | End |
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Ford Foundation
 Ford Foundation Investment Trusts/Mutual FundsMiscellaneous Ford Foundation is an independent, nonprofit, non-governmental organization headquartered in New York City. Founded in 1936, the Foundation provides grants, projects and loans to strengthen democratic values, reduce poverty and injustice, promote international cooperation and advance human achievement. The foundation funds derive from an investment portfolio that began with gifts and bequests of Ford Motor Company stock by Henry and Edsel Ford. | Corporate Officer/Principal | 31/12/2010 |
The Center for Constitutional Rights, Inc.
 The Center for Constitutional Rights, Inc. Miscellaneous Commercial ServicesCommercial Services The Center for Constitutional Rights, Inc. provides social welfare services. The firm focuses on rights guaranteed by the U.S. constitution and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. It uses litigation to protest government misconduct and racial, social, and economic injustice. The company was founded by Morton Stavis, Arthur Kinoy, Ben Smith, and Willaim Kunstler in 1966 and is headquartered in New York, NY. | Corporate Officer/Principal | - |
Training of Sara E. Ríos
| University of Toledo (Ohio) | Graduate Degree |
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Ford Foundation
Ford Foundation Investment Trusts/Mutual FundsMiscellaneous Ford Foundation is an independent, nonprofit, non-governmental organization headquartered in New York City. Founded in 1936, the Foundation provides grants, projects and loans to strengthen democratic values, reduce poverty and injustice, promote international cooperation and advance human achievement. The foundation funds derive from an investment portfolio that began with gifts and bequests of Ford Motor Company stock by Henry and Edsel Ford. | Miscellaneous |
The Center for Constitutional Rights, Inc.
The Center for Constitutional Rights, Inc. Miscellaneous Commercial ServicesCommercial Services The Center for Constitutional Rights, Inc. provides social welfare services. The firm focuses on rights guaranteed by the U.S. constitution and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. It uses litigation to protest government misconduct and racial, social, and economic injustice. The company was founded by Morton Stavis, Arthur Kinoy, Ben Smith, and Willaim Kunstler in 1966 and is headquartered in New York, NY. | Commercial Services |
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