Alegría De La Cruz

Alegría De La Cruz has spent her career in public interest and public service. She is currently the Director of Advancement & Development at the CRLA Foundation.

Prior to that, Alegría served in key leadership roles at the Dolores Huerta Foundation & Dolores Huerta Action Fund, the Disability Rights Legal Center, and with Sonoma County, where the Board of Supervisors appointed Alegría as the founding Director of the Sonoma County Office of Equity, where she worked to create systems and capacity to address unjust racialized outcomes throughout the County. She also served as a Chief Deputy in the Sonoma County Counsel’s Office and played a critical part in ensuring equitable responses to multiple disasters. Alegría has also served under Governor Jerry Brown as a lead prosecutor at the Agricultural Labor Relations Board and enforced farmworker labor rights. She began her career as a community lawyer at California Rural Legal Assistance and worked on behalf of farmworkers and farmworker communities on wage and hour issues, sexual harassment, pesticide and air quality regulation and enforcement, and environmental justice issues prevalent throughout rural, working class, and immigrant communities of color.

Alegría holds a Bachelor of Arts in History from Yale University and a Juris Doctor from the University of California Berkeley School of Law. Alegría identifies as Chicana and recognizes, embraces, and celebrates her responsibility to contribute meaningfully to public service, social justice, and equity.