found: Washington post WWW site, viewed March 14, 2018(Joaquin Avila, a civil rights lawyer and activist who helped combat voting rights discrimination against Latinos and other minorities, including a successful effort to ensure greater political representation through census counts, died March 9 [2018] at his home in Shoreline, Wash.; he was 69; the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund, where Mr. Avila was president and general counsel from 1982 to 1985, announced his death; Joaquin Guadalupe Avila was born Los Angeles on June 23, 1948; soon after receiving his law degree in 1973, he joined MALDEF; Mr. Avila's most recent job was as a distinguished practitioner in residence and director of the National Voting Rights Advocacy Initiative at Seattle University's law school)
