 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.The project resulted in the creation of the Austin, Texas Workers’ Defense Project (WDP), a membership organization for low-wage workers.