Angelys Torres McBride
Angelys Torres McBride is a civil rights Assistant Attorney General for the Office of the Illinois Attorney General (“OAG”). At OAG, Angelys serves on the leadership committee for the Hispanic/Latinx Employee Resource Group for which she assists in planning programs to bring Hispanic/Latinx staff together and celebrate Hispanic/Latinx culture.
In her free time, Angelys serves as the Young Lawyer Board Director for the Hispanic Lawyers Association of Illinois (“HLAI”). In this role, Angelys has successfully hosted nearly two dozen programs targeting the unique challenges lawyers within their first five years of practice often face. Angelys will transition to Treasurer and remain on the HLAI Board for the 2025-2026 bar year. She also volunteers as a chapter advisor to her alma mater Delta Zeta Chapter of Sigma Lambda Gamma National Sorority, Inc. at Valparaiso University. Angelys began serving in this role in January 2024, mentoring many undergraduate women not only through official sorority business, but also academic, familial, and personal challenges.
In 2021, Angelys graduated from Drexel University Kline School of Law located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. During law school, Angelys served as President of the Latin American Law Students Association, a member of the Diversity & Inclusion and Be Well Committee, and a competitor on the Moot Court Team. She also worked in the Andy & Gwen Stern Community Lawyering Clinic where she filed an amicus brief in support of the ACLU’s case challenging the cash bail system in Philadelphia. As part of her clinical tenure, Angelys collaborated with a think tank based out of a local prison to develop impact litigation that will expand the class of individuals barred from life without parole sentences on the basis of the Eighth Amendment. Along with the Amistad Law Project, Angelys’s work was published in a report titled “Pandemic in PA’s Prisons” calling on then Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf to release vulnerable and elderly incarcerated individuals in an attempt to stop COVID-19 from running rampant across the state. Angelys was awarded the Diversity & Inclusion Committee Student Champion of Diversity Award and the Faculty Award for Outstanding Leadership in the Law School Community for her contributions to Kline School of Law. She was also awarded the prestigious Ms. JD Fellowship from the American Bar Association Commission on Women in the Profession in 2020.
Before law school, Angelys graduated from Valparaiso University in 2018 with a Bachelor’s degree in Sociology/Criminology and Humanities. During that time, Angelys served as a representative in the city-organized Human Relations Council for mayoral advisory and participated in the installment of a Human Rights Ordinance granting protective rights to classes of people in the city of Valparaiso not covered by Indiana statute. Angelys was awarded the Valparaiso University Student Affairs Outstanding Leadership and Service Award and the Office of Multicultural Programs Outstanding Leadership Award for her many contributions across various sects of campus and community life.
Angelys is a Puerto Rican Chicago native born and raised on the city’s northwest side. She attended catholic elementary school, and graduated from Whitney M. Young Magnet High School.
