Carlos Guevara

Carlos Guevara serves as the Immigration Hub’s Senior Director of Policy. In this role, he helps lead the team’s mission of advancing fair, effective, and humane federal immigration policies that reflect America’s values and strong traditions of welcoming and integrating immigrants into its social, economic, and cultural fabric.

Prior to joining the Immigration Hub, Carlos served as the Director of Immigration Policy at UnidosUS, the nation’s largest Latino civil rights organization, for nearly six years, helping oversee the organization’s immigration initiatives. He also served as a counselor in the Office of the Secretary at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security from 2014 to 2017, where he worked on immigration policy issues in the Obama Administration. Carlos is proud to have started his career in immigration law and policy as an attorney representing predominantly low-income immigrants and their families through the Catholic Charities network in Michigan and Maryland.

Some of Carlos’s recent public works on this issue include:

• Guevara, et. al, “2024 Immigration Priorities A Blueprint for the Biden-Harris Administration.” Immigration Hub (February 2024).
• Guevara, et. al, “2023 Immigration Priorities A Blueprint for the Biden-Harris Administration.” Immigration Hub (February 2023).
• Acevedo-Garcia, Joshi, Ruskin, Walters, Sofer, Guevara. “Including Children in Immigrant Families in Policy Approaches to Reduce Child Poverty.” Academic Pediatrics (June 2021).
• Guevara & Ruskin, “The Great American Pandemic Recovery: Tackling Systems of Inequality that Impede Full Latino Inclusion in the COVID-19 Response,” Harvard Kennedy School Journal of Latino Policy (Spring 2021).
• UnidosUS & Populations Reference Bureau, “By the Numbers: Latinos in the Time of Coronavirus Dashboard.” UnidosUS (Spring 2021).
• Panelist, Brookings Institution 2020 Policy Outlooks and Contributor to “Our Nation of Immigrants” project (September 2020).
• Guevara, et. al, “The Latino Community in the Time of Coronavirus: The Case for a Broad and Inclusive Government Response.” UnidosUS (June 2020).
• Guevara, “Beyond the Border: Family Separation in the Trump Era.” UnidosUS (March 2019).

Carlos is a first-generation, naturalized American. He was born in Hermosillo, Mexico, and moved to San Antonio, Texas, when he was four years old. He is a graduate of the University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law and the University of Virginia, where he earned his bachelor’s degree. He is the father of two, an avid basketball fan, and an aspiring gardener.