Claudia Quintero

Staff Attorney

Claudia joined Central West Justice Center in 2017, after graduating law school. She leads the Migrant and Seasonal Farmworker Project for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, and the Fairness for Farmworkers Coalition. She was honored with the 40 under 40 award in 2021, awarded the Adams Pro Bono Publico Award by the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, and  was previously recognized as Student of the Year by the Massachusetts National Lawyers Guild in 2017. Attorney Quintero was recently appointed to the Labor and Workforce Development Working Group with the City of Springfield, was a founding board member of the Pioneer Valley Workers Center, on the board of the Rosenberg Fund for Children, New England Public Media, and the coordinating committee of the ACLU of MA Immigrant Protection project. She has previously mentored college and law students through the Lawyers Collaborative for Diversity, and UMass Women in Leadership (UWiL) Program.  In 2019, she was chosen as a scholar for the American Bar Association Young Lawyers Division, and in 2020 she was selected as the Chair of the Minorities in the Profession Committee for the American Bar Association Young Lawyers Division. She is an active member of the Massachusetts chapter of the National Lawyers Guild, the Hampden County Bar Association and the Massachusetts Bar Association. While in law school she interned with Public Counsel in Los Angeles in their Immigrants’ Rights Project, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Office of Legal Counsel in Washington, DC., and the City of Springfield in their Labor Relations Department. Attorney Quintero also teaches Law and Social Change at Western New England University School of Law, and is a native Spanish speaker.