[1] As an attorney, Gavito has represented unions, immigrant and migrant workers, and individuals regarding a variety of labor law, wage payment and employment discrimination matters.
[citation needed] From 2004 to 2006, Gavito received the New Voice Fellowship and the Yale Initiative for Public Interest Law Grant to work as a Staff Attorney at the Central Texas Immigrant Workers’ Rights Center, a wage claim project affiliated with the Austin, Texas Equal Justice Center.
There she supervised law students in the Transnational Workers’ Rights Clinic at the University of Texas School of Law, and led a wage-claim litigation project for low-wage immigrant workers in contract and labor disputes.
[5] Gavito is currently an advisory board member of the Center for Migrant Rights and the Workers Defense Project.
[6] Gavito also served as a research assistant at the Immigration Human Rights Clinic at the Center for Legal and Social Justice at St. Mary's Law School, and as an AmeriCorps Volunteer with the American Friends Service Committee in Denver, Colorado.