Mark Scaggs

Mark Scaggs

Mark Scaggs graduated from Colorado College in 2018 with a B.A. in religion and distinction in sociology. After graduation, Mark served as an outreach fellow for Towards Justice, a labor rights nonprofit focused on combating wage theft against primarily immigrant communities across Colorado. Mark then spent three years working in rural Georgia with the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC). As a paralegal in SPLC’s Southeast Immigrant Freedom Initiative, he fought to release people from immigrant detention and expose the everyday indignities of their incarceration. Mark strives to continue this work as a community lawyer in the movement to abolish prisons and detention centers. Raised between Denver, CO and Jacksonville, FL, Mark is the first in his family to attend law school. In his spare time, he enjoys playing collaborative board games, reading sci-fi, and barreling down the Hudson River Greenway on his bike.