Aimee J. Baldillo

Aimee J. Baldillo is the Director of Programs at the Asian American Justice Center, where she supervises and directs the program and litigation efforts of the organization. Prior to her position at AAJC, Ms. Baldillo was a special assistant district attorney in New York.

As an expert on anti-Asian violence and race relations, Ms. Baldillo serves on the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights hate crimes and racial profiling task forces and produced the 2002 Audit of Violence Against Asian Pacific Americans. Ms. Baldillo has appeared on National Public Radio and has been quoted by Associated Press, Chicago Tribune, Dallas Morning News, Star Tribune, The Pioneer Press, and numerous other local and ethnic papers.  

At AAJC, Ms. Baldillo also directs the law clerk program, where she has recruited and mentored dozens of law and undergraduate students. Under her guidance, the program has gained national prominence in the public interest sector and has produced numerous fellows and federal judicial law clerks. 

Ms. Baldillo is a member of the adjunct faculty at the George Washington University Law School, where she established Asian Americans and the Law as part of the law curricula. She has also lectured on Asian American and law issues at Columbia Law School and at the American University, Washington College of Law.

Ms. Baldillo received her juris doctor from Villanova University School of Law and her bachelor of arts in English from Villanova University. She is admitted to practice in New York and Connecticut.