Antonio Coronado

Antonio Coronado (they/them/elle) is a Project Lead at i4J and brings years of experience as an interdisciplinary educator, legal storyteller, and intersectional community advocate. They first got their start with legal innovation work in 2018 as an i4J student and research fellow to i4J’s housing stability impact area. They received their J.D. from Northeastern University School of Law with an interdisciplinary certificate in Poverty Law and Economic Justice. Antonio is a double Wildcat and holds both a B.A., magna cum laude, and M.A., summa cum laude, in Communication from the University of Arizona. Prior to rejoining i4J, Antonio served as a Clinical Teaching Fellow in the REEL Policy Clinic at Georgetown University Law Center. There, they engaged student attorneys in policy advocacy on behalf of organizational clients in D.C. and New York, with a focus on Critical Race Theory and promoting racial equity in U.S. education. 

As a genderqueer, Xicanx, and disabled educator-advocate, Antonio has an embodied understanding of U.S. settler law that is complemented by their experiences in the legal profession. Pedagogically and across their work in service of communities, they are committed to practices of dreaming, disrupting, and radical reflection.