Justin was born and raised in San Francisco’s Mission District. Growing up in a neighborhood shaped by recent immigrants, he learned the gift of hospitality from his neighbors. As he grew older and learned about U.S. immigration laws, he found it unjust that our nation chooses to be inhospitable to the migrant and indigenous communities that taught him hospitality in the first place.

Justin graduated from UC Santa Cruz in 2017 with a bachelor’s degree in Linguistics. He took the summer after college to visit Guatemala and learn Spanish as part of his goal to be more hospitable to Central American immigrants arriving in the Bay Area. He joined the Jubilee team because he wanted to advocate for the immigrant community in the Bay Area in a more substantial and sustained way. In 2020, Justin became a fully accredited DOJ Representative.

Justin speaks Spanish.