Alex Linares

Alexander Linares - Paralegal

Alex Linares was born and raised in the Little Village neighborhood of Chicago. Little Village has had a tremendous impact on his life, motivating him to volunteer and work to better service the needs of the neighborhood. In 2006, he graduated from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he majored in Sociology and minored in English. While at Champaign, he volunteered for Amnesty International and worked at the local Middle School, helping recent immigrant youth learn to speak English. He has had vast experience in the non-profit sector, having done community organizing for ACORN on the Southwest Side, youth work for the Multi-Cultural Youth Project on the North Side, and guitar tutoring at El Valor in Pilsen. Alex hopes to continue working for the Little Village neighborhood and to see it flourish through his work as a paralegal at Katz Law Office, Ltd.