Eric Gonzalez Alfaro

Eric Gonzalez Alfaro is the policy advocate for Earthjustice Northwest Regional Office, and is responsible for leading administrative rulemaking and legislative strategies. Prior to joining Earthjustice, Eric served as legislative director for the American Civil Liberties Union of Washington, where he led legislative strategies to address the criminal legal system, technology assisted surveillance, health care, immigrant rights, houselessness crisis, and to uphold the state’s paramount duty of providing quality education to all students in Washington. Between 2016 and 2019, Eric served as the legislative & policy director for the Washington State Labor Council, AFL-CIO. While there, he led strategy on workers’ rights (on and off the jobsite), healthcare, education, voting justice, immigrant rights, civil liberties, and strategies to end mass incarceration. Prior to WSLC, Eric served as staff lobbyist for the state’s largest immigrant and refugee rights organization: OneAmerica (founded by Congressional Progressive Caucus Chair Rep. Pramila Jayapal). Eric has also worked as the director of the Equal Justice Coalition, organizing to increase federal and regional funding for Washington civil legal aid programs. These free legal services are essential for helping families in crisis avoid foreclosure, thwart fraudulent and predatory practices, assist victims of domestic violence, and remedy inaccurate, unlawful termination of unemployment, healthcare, and other state supported basic need programs.