Vincent A. Lazaro
Vincent A. Lazaro
Vincent A. Lázaro is an attorney, historian, and policy scholar based in San Antonio, Texas. He is the founder and principal of the Law Office of Vincent A. Lázaro and has previously served as General Counsel and Senior Research Associate for the Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities (HACU), as well as a staff attorney with the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund (MALDEF).
Lázaro holds degrees from several institutions of higher education, including Yale University, Columbia Law School, and Harvard University, where he completed doctoral studies in Administration, Planning, and Social Policy. He also served as an editor of the Harvard Educational Review and the Columbia Human Rights Law Review.
In addition to his legal and historical scholarship, Lázaro’s interdisciplinary work includes writing on the cultural and historical significance of mariachi trumpet pedagogy, informed by his experience as a former member of Mariachi Campanas de América, one of the premier Mariachis in the United States. He is also a former U.S. Army officer. His scholarly interests include the origins of the first public high school in San Antonio, Texas, as well as the intersection of law, education, and culture.