Stefanie Rivera and Elana Redfield of the Sylvia Rivera Law Project were pleased to accept the Cesar Perales Community Advocate Award at the Brooklyn Law Latin American Law Student Association Alumni Dinner on Friday April 16,2010.

The Cesar Perales Award is named after Cesar Perales, an attorney and activist who co-founded the Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund (PRLDEF, now LatinoJusitice PRLDEF) and who made his name representing and empowering members of the Latino Community among others. Cesar Perales offers us one vision of how lawyers who support social movements can work to advice community activism. We are so excited to receive this award!