Griffin Arellano

Griffin Arellano received his Bachelor of Arts and Law degrees from the University of New Mexico. Griffin spent five years in public education as a high school teacher before attending law school, where he worked against systemic power imbalances that kept students and communities from achieving their full potential.  

In his first year of law school, Griffin was awarded the Don G. McCormick Writing Prize and spent his summer clerking with the New Mexico Center on Law and Poverty’s education team. Based on that experience, Griffin wrote and published Action is Not Activism: Moving Martinez/Yazzie v. State Forward in the New Mexico Law Review, while also serving as a Manuscript Editor.

Griffin gained additional professional experience during law school while externing at the Law Offices of the Public Defender, the New Mexico Court of Appeals, and clerking for Rothstein Donatelli, LLP. 

Griffin has dedicated his career to advocating for people and defending the rights of New Mexicans.