Diego Paz

Diego is an undergraduate student in Pauli Murray College pursuing his B.A. in Political Science and Ethnicity, Race, and Migration with a Human Rights certificate through the Jackson School of Global Affairs. He is the son of immigrants and was raised along the U.S.-Mexico borderlands of California where he commuted daily from Tijuana, México to San Diego to attend school.

Diego’s scholarly interests lie at the intersection of critical border studies, comparative immigration policy, and international security politics. His research examines transnational mobility and host-country attitudes toward migrants, with particular attention to human rights violations experienced by immigrants in the United Kingdom, southern Spain, Spanish North Africa, and the wider Mediterranean. He has studied abroad in Barcelona for Spanish language and culture, and will study political sociology and security and conflict at the University of Oxford in Spring 2026.

He’s an organizer for Mecha de Yale, archivist for Unidad Latina en Acción (ULA), legal advocacy intern for Elena’s Light, and community partner for Integrated Refugee and Immigrant Services (IRIS). He is working on a project with the University Network for Human Rights on forced disappearances in Mexico. He is a Liman Fellow and previously worked at the Office of the Federal Public Defender for the District of Connecticut and is currently working as an assistant for the Arthur Liman Center for Public Interest Law at Yale Law School. At Yale, Diego is involved in the Yale College Council, creates content as a social media ambassador for the Yale Office of Public Affairs and Communications, supports first-years as a Peer Liaison for the Yale LGBTQ Center, guides visitors around campus as a Yale tour guide, and co-headed the Camp Yale program Cultural Connections.’

Postgrad, Diego plans to pursue his masters at a UK university and eventually a PhD with the goal of working in international security and immigration policy in Europe.

Department: Political Science and Ethnicity, Race, and Migration