Antonio Coronado

Professor of Practice, University of Arizona
& Community Legal Education Co-Coordinator, University of Arizona and University of Utah

Antonio Coronado (they/them/elle) is a Co-Coordinator of i4J’s Community Legal Education Programs and brings years of experience as an interdisciplinary educator, legal storyteller, and intersectional builder of community power. They got their start with legal innovation in 2018 as an inaugural i4J student and housing stability research fellow. 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.

Before rejoining i4J, Antonio served as a Clinical Teaching Fellow to the Racial Equity in Education Law & 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 K-12 education. 

As a genderqueer, Xicanx, and disabled educator, Antonio has an embodied understanding of U.S. settler law that is complemented by their experiences in the legal profession. As Co-Coordinator, they jointly administer i4J’s suite of Justice Worker programs, training and certifying community advocates in three civil legal practice areas across Arizona and Utah. They serve on the executive board for the Law and Society Association’s Collaborative Research Network 19 on Legal Education and are committed to pedagogical practices of dreaming, disrupting, and radical reflection.

Featured Articles:

Book Chapters & Reports:

  • Antonio M. 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 2026).

  • Antonio M. Coronado, Cayley Balser, Gabriela Elizondo-Craig, Shannon S. Hayes, Abigael McGuire, & Marisol Rodriguez-Cruz, Community Legal Education & Our Duty to Dream, forthcoming in Research Handbook on Global Legal Education, Ballakrishnen, Swethaa and Bryant Garth, eds. (Forthcoming 2026).

  • Antonio M. Coronado, Repair & Resistance: Law Students as Leaders of the Legal Design Movement, in Legal Design: Dignifying People in Legal Systems, Jackson, Dan, et al., eds. (Cambridge University Press, 2024).

  • Antonio M. Coronado, Report on the State of BIPOC at Northeastern University School of Law, Commissioned by the Committee Against Institutional Racism at Northeastern University School of Law (Sept. 25, 2020).

Advocacy-in-Action:

Selected Talks & Presentations:

  • What We Can Learn From Community Justice Worker Programs in the US, Public Legal Education Association of Canada (February 2026).

  • Community-Powered Justice: Transforming Legal Access Through Advocate Training, National Conference of Bar Examiners Annual Bar Admissions Conference (May 2025).

  • Community Justice Help: Keeping Community Front and Centre, Public Legal Education Association of Canada (February 2025).

  • Expanding Access to Justice through Legal Tech Innovation and Education Symposium: Justice Innovation, Association of American Law Schools Annual Meeting (January 2025).

  • Re-Regulating Justice: Working to Realize Housing Stability Through Community Legal Advocacy, Equal Justice Conference (May 2024).

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

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

  • 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).

Scholarship Interests:

Access to Justice (A2J); critical legal empowerment; justice work; law & sociology

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