John Trasviña serves as a member of the Board of Directors for the Campaign for College Opportunity. Trasviña is currently the President and General Counsel for the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund (MALDEF), one of the Campaign's founding organizations. For the past two decades, Trasviña has played a major policy role at local and federal levels on immigration and civil rights matters affecting immigrants, minority communities and women. He has written and spoken nationally on topics including voting rights, immigration policy, worker rights, English only policies, diversity and education.

Trasviña began his career at MALDEF in Washington, DC as a legislative attorney. He later worked under Senator Paul Simon as General Counsel & Staff Director for the U.S. Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution. In 1997, President Clinton appointed Mr. Trasviña to be Special Counsel for Immigration Related Unfair Employment Practices. As Special Counsel, he headed the federal government's only office devoted solely to immigrant workplace rights and was the highest ranking Latino attorney at the U.S. Department of Justice.

Prior to re-joining MALDEF in 2005, Trasviña was the Director of the Discrimination Research Center in Berkeley and Los Angeles and taught Immigration Law at Stanford Law School.

A native of San Francisco, Trasviña is a graduate of Harvard University and Stanford Law School. Before coming to Los Angeles, he was a member of the San Francisco Elections Commission, president of the Harvard Club of San Francisco, and a board member of the La Raza Lawyers Association, CORO of Northern California, the Lowell High School Alumni Association, the League of Women Voters and the Pacific Coast Immigration Museum. He also serves on the boards of the Latino Issues Forum and the Harvard Club of Southern California.

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