Vivek Malhotra

Advocacy and Policy Counsel, American Civil Liberties Union

Vivek Malhotra is an Advocacy and Policy Counsel with the national office of the American Civil Liberties Union. In this position, he coordinates support for the 53 ACLU state affiliate offices throughout the United States around issues of immigrants’ rights, racial justice, and voting rights, through a comprehensive program of advocacy, education and litigation. His focus is in providing affiliates with strategic legislative and pre-litigation counsel on the rights of immigrants.

Vivek was previously the national State Strategist for the ACLU’s Immigrants’ Rights Project, based in San Francisco, and a state lobbyist for both the ACLU California Legislative Office and Asian Americans for Civil Rights and Equality, in Sacramento. He developed legislation and lobbied state lawmakers on a range of civil liberties and civil rights issues, including immigrants’ rights. Vivek began his career as a civil litigation attorney in the Los Angeles office of Loeb & Loeb LLP. He is a graduate of Pomona College and New York University School of Law.