Antonio Coronado

Professor of Practice, University of Arizona
Community Legal Education Lead, University of Arizona and University of Utah

Antonio Coronado (they/them/elle) is a Project Lead at i4J and brings years of experience as an interdisciplinary educator, legal storyteller, and intersectional community advocate. They first got their start with legal innovation work in 2018 as an i4J student and research fellow to i4J’s housing stability impact area. They received their J.D. from Northeastern University School of Law with an interdisciplinary certificate in Poverty Law and Economic Justice. Antonio is a double Wildcat and holds both a B.A., magna cum laude, and M.A., summa cum laude, in Communication from the University of Arizona. Prior to rejoining i4J, Antonio served as a Clinical Teaching Fellow in the REEL Policy Clinic at Georgetown University Law Center. There, they engaged student attorneys in policy advocacy on behalf of organizational clients in D.C. and New York, with a focus on Critical Race Theory and promoting racial equity in U.S. education. 

As a genderqueer, Xicanx, and disabled educator-advocate, Antonio has an embodied understanding of U.S. settler law that is complemented by their experiences in the legal profession. Pedagogically and across their work in service of communities, they are committed to practices of dreaming, disrupting, and radical reflection.

Featured Publications:

Forthcoming Works:

  • Antonio Coronado, Race to Our End: Charting Caste & Stolen Lives in U.S. Labor, forthcoming in Understanding Race and Caste: Convergences and Divergences, Sethuraman, Venkatanarayanan and Veronica Fynn Bruey, eds. (Forthcoming 2024).

  • Antonio Coronado, Envisioning Reparative Legal Pedagogies, __ Clinical Law Review __ (Forthcoming Winter 2023).

  • Antonio Coronado, Repair & Resistance: Law Students as Leaders of the Legal Design Movement, forthcoming in Legal Design: Dignifying People in Legal Systems, Jackson, Dan, et al., eds. (Cambridge University Press, Forthcoming Fall 2023).

Advocacy in Action:

Conference Talks & Presentations:

  • Panelist, Practicing Pedagogical Repair: Disinheriting a Culture of Harm in Legal Education, Law & Society Association Annual Meeting (June 2023).

  • Panelist, Pedagogy of the Oppressive: Toward the Abolition of U.S. Law Schools, Abolitions Conference, University of California Washington Center (May 2023).

  • Panelist & Co-Discussant, Racial Injustice and States of Emergency, Association of American Law Schools Clinical Conference, Works in Progress Session (April 2023).

  • Co-Facilitator, Expanding Access to Clinical Legal Education & Supporting Clinical Students with Disabilities, Association of American Law Schools Clinical Conference (April 2023).

  • Panelist, Governance and Politicization of Primary and Secondary Public Schools, Association of American Law Schools Annual Meeting (January 2023).

  • Panelist, Beginnings, Middles, and Endings: Ideas for Your Classes and Your Courses, Association of American Law Schools (January 2023).

  •  Co-Presenter, Teaching Law Student Self-Compassion: Lessons Learned from the Racial Equity in Education Law & Policy Clinic, Society of American Law Teachers 2022 Conference (October 2022).

Scholarship Interests:

Access to Justice (A2J); law and literature; legal poetics and rhetoric as mythmaking; interdisciplinary research; reparative legal pedagogies; Critical Race Theory (CRT); law and sociology

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