Cesar Z. Ruiz is Associate Counsel at LatinoJustice. Cesar was the organization's Equal Justice Works Legal Fellow 2021-2023 and works in the area of voting rights and redistricting. He was born and raised in New York, to parents who migrated from Puerto Rico. He is a first-generation Juris Doctor who graduated from CUNY School of Law in 2021. He also served as a legal intern for LatinoJustice during the spring and summer of 2020 before pursuing a fellowship with the organization.

During his Fellowship, Cesar provided voter and redistricting education and outreach to the Latino community in New York and Florida. He has also provided oversight and advocacy for compliance with state and federal election law, litigating voting and redistricting issues as presented. 

He will continue to support LatinoJustice’s work in voting rights through litigation and advocacy related to voting access and redistricting.