Hispanic National Bar Association CEO and leadership

Alejandra Y Castillo is a Chief Executive Officer at Hispanic National Bar Association, APCO International Advisor Council Member at APCO Worldwide, and National Director at Minority Business Development Agency and is based in Washington, D.C.. She has worked as Director of Briefing, Democratic National Committee at Hispanic National Bar Association; Member Board Of Trustees at YWCA Retirement Fund Inc; and National Deputy Director at Minority Business Development Agency. Alejandra works or has worked as BOARD MEMBER at Dominican American Society of Queens, NY and MEMBER at Obama Latin America Foreign Policy Group. She studied at American University Washington College of Law between 2001 and 2004, Stony Brook University between 1988 and 1992, and Rutgers.

Alba Cruz-Hacker is an experienced, proactive and results-driven executive with progressive expertise in business development and operations, corporate communications, strategic leadership/alliances, government, international, media, and public relations, and project/event conceptualization and management.

She is the Chief Operating Officer and Executive Director of the Hispanic National Bar Association (HNBA)-a nonprofit, nonpartisan, national organization which represents the interests of Hispanic legal professionals in the United States and its territories. The HNBA also advocates on issues of importance to the 54+ million people of Hispanic heritage living in the U.S. In addition, she is an HNBA Representative before the National Hispanic Leadership Agenda (NHLA).

Prior to her current role, she served for eight years as Senior Director of Development and Special Projects for the General Consulate of the Dominican Republic in the U.S. Western Region (with a 13-state jurisdiction), and also worked as an Adjunct and Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of California Riverside and the UCR Palm Desert Graduate Center.