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As the college’s in-house legal counsel, she provides advice and counsel to the president and administrators on matters including governance, labor relations, litigation, students’ rights and responsibilities, and faculty tenure and promotion.
As legal-affairs designee, Alvarez manages the college’s litigation in coordination with the offices of the New York State Attorney General and the University’s Senior Vice Chancellor for Legal Affairs and General Counsel. As labor designee, she manages instructional-staff labor relations with the Professional Staff Congress and serves as the liaison with the office of the Vice Chancellor for Labor Relations. Alvarez also serves as the ethics officer and public-records access officer.
Before joining Hunter College, Alvarez worked as a litigation associate for Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP and served as a law clerk for The Honorable Edgardo Ramos of the Southern District of New York. She holds degrees from Dartmouth College and New York University School of Law.