Fernando Colón-Navarro was born and raised in Guayama Puerto Rico. In 1970 he left Puerto Rico to pursue his college education at St. John’s University, Collegeville, Minnesota where he received his undergraduate degree. After graduation, Mr. Colón-Navarro lived and worked in Detroit, Michigan where he was director of Latin Americans for Social and Economic Development, an agency serving the legal and social needs of the Hispanic community of Michigan. In 1978 Mr. Colón-Navarro attended the University of Minnesota School of Law where he received his Law Degree in 1981.

After working for the Minnesota Legal Service Corporation and later with the Mexican-American Legal Defense Fund in Chicago, Mr. Colón-Navarro was named Director of the Immigration Clinic at Harvard Law School where he served in that capacity from 1987 to 1991. Mr. Colón-Navarro received a Masters degree in Education in 1990 and a Masters of law degree from Harvard Law School in 1991.

Since 1991 Mr. Colón-Navarro has been teaching law at Thurgood Marshall School of Law in Houston where he is a tenured Assistant Professor.

Mr. Colon-Navarro has been admitted to the Minnesota, Illinois and Massachusetts Bar and is presently is licensed to practice law in Massachusetts. In his practice he specializes in the area of Immigration law. At the present time Mr. Colon-Navarro teaches Immigration Law, Political Asylum, Property and International Human Rights