Alegría De La Cruz

Alegría De La Cruz has spent her career in public interest and public service. She is currently the Director of Community & Government Relations at the Dolores Huerta Foundation and the Political Director at the Dolores Huerta Action Fund.

Prior to that, the Sonoma County 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 key leadership role in 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.