Radio cachimbona
growing, healing, and storytelling in southern arizona.
ABOUT
Radio Cachimbona follows Yvette as she navigates being a movement lawyer and writer in Southern Arizona. She storytells the fierce, ongoing migrant resistance occurring in these borderlands.
As a first-generation professional whose parents are Salvadoran immigrants, Yvette prioritizes uplifting the voices of Central Americans.
mEET yVETTE
Yvette currently lives in Los Angeles and is the inaugural Laura E. Gómez Teaching Fellow on Latinx People and the Law at UCLA Law School. She is the daughter of Salvadoran asylum seekers who fled the civil war in the 1980's. As the first person in her family to graduate from college, Yvette earned a BA in American Studies with distinction from Yale College in 2014. After graduating, Yvette interned for Justice Sotomayor. Yvette then graduated in 2018 from Stanford Law School and helped pro se respondents in their deportation proceedings in Southern Arizona for around a year and then worked as a civil rights attorney focused on border and immigration issues at the ACLU of Arizona for two and a half years. She is the co-founder of the Cerebronas podcast and the founder of Radio Cachimbona. Yvette enjoys cooking, craft beer, and cuddling with her cat Mocha.