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Rea Mae Gacad

Director, Program Planning, Services, and Support

Rea Mae is the Director of Program Planning, Services, and Support at the Acacia Center for Justice. An immigrant herself, she has advocated for immigrants’ rights and spent over a decade working at nonprofit immigration services agencies across the country. Her experience includes representing survivors of human trafficking and other forms of gender-based violence at Sanctuary for Families in New York and representing unaccompanied youth and providing legal orientation program services at Esperanza Immigrant Rights Project in Los Angeles. Before joining Acacia, Rea Mae served as the Director of Transition-Immigrant Legal Defense and Orientation Programs at Vera Institute of Justice, where she contributed to the successful transition of programs from Vera to Acacia. Rea Mae holds a J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center and a B.A. from Boston College.