Bio

Irma Solis is the Director of the Suffolk Regional Office at the New York Civil Liberties Union, where she organizes legal, educational and community outreach in Suffolk County on issues ranging from police accountability to education reform. Irma is passionate about deconstructing systems to reclaim people power.

Irma has more than 20 years of experience leading campaigns to win transformative legal and policy change at all levels of government in communities in upstate New York, Brooklyn and Long Island. These include racially targeted housing code enforcement activities in the Town of Brookhaven, wage theft by unscrupulous employers, violations of the Fair Housing Act, day laborers’ right to seek work in public spaces, Latino students’ right to public education and discriminatory practices by the Suffolk County police. As an organizer and facilitator, Irma values humor, empathy, humility, creative expression, disruption, contemplation and systems thinking.

Irma has worked for New York State Attorney General’s Consumer Frauds Bureau, Central American Legal Assistance, The Workplace Project and Long Island Housing Services. She has consulted for Latino Justice and other social justice organizations as community organizer and trainer, with a focus on social and racial justice, leadership and organizational development.

Irma received her law degree from University at Buffalo School of Law and her BA from Binghamton University.