Ju Lee

Ju Lee is a 2L at the University of California College of the Law, San Francisco (formerly UC Hastings). At UC Law SF, Ju is the treasurer of the First Generation Professionals, Director of Communication of the Students for Immigrants’ Right, 2L Representative for the Student Body, and an active member of APALSA. During her first year of law school, Ju has been awarded the ABA Legal Opportunity Scholarship. During her 1L summer, Ju has interned with the Civil Litigation team at Open Door Legal, where she provided services to low-income community members. Before joining law school, Ju has worked as a legal assistant and as a freelance private tutor in the Greater Los Angeles. She has spent her free time volunteering for CHIRLA advocating for the community and for Girl Scouts, which she continues to do today.

Emily Taing

Emily Taing (she/her) is a 2L at UC Law San Francisco (formerly UC Hastings). She is a Bay Area native and grew up working alongside her parents at their family’s donut shop in Santa Clara. Emily received her B.A. in International Development Studies and Asian American Studies from UCLA and her M.A. in American Studies from the Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race at Columbia University. As an undergraduate student, Emily collaborated with the Center for Empowering Refugees & Immigrants in Oakland to highlight Cambodian Women refugee experiences, and she researched at the Center for Khmer Studies in Siem Reap, Cambodia, as a Junior Resident Fellow on economic development and political regimes with regards to human trafficking in Southeast Asia. She also interned with the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law in Washington D.C. as a FirstGEN Fellow, Congressman Ted Lieu in California 36th District, and the House of the Oireachtas – National Parliament of Ireland.

Prior to law school, she worked as a paralegal in New York City and Los Angeles. She also served as an international policy writer for the Society for Immigrant and Refugee Rights at Columbia Law School. At UC Law SF, Emily serves as the President of the Asian Pacific American Law Student Association (APALSA) and a staff editor for the UC Law Journal of Race and Economic Justice. Additionally, she is engaged in empowering underrepresented communities as a career mentor at Students Rising Above and a volunteer mentor to high school AAPI students at AAMPLIFY. This past summer, Emily interned with the Federal Trade Commission as a Fred T. Korematsu Summer Fellow. Emily is also a writer and curator for Pink Box Stories, a storytelling platform sharing stories of the Cambodian families behind California’s donut shops. As a first-generation law student from a low-income background and daughter of refugee and immigrants, Emily is committed to legal advocacy and community building to ensure racial and economic justice for underserved and marginalized communities.

Tussanee Reedboon

Tussanee is a rising 3L at UC Law SF. She grew up in Koreatown/East Hollywood, Los Angeles and is a daughter of Thai immigrants who were factory workers. Before law school she was a high school social studies teacher for ten years in South Central Los Angeles, East Los Angeles and East San Jose. As a social justice educator, she taught culturally relevant curriculum and practiced restorative justice in her classroom. As a law student, Tussanee is interested in criminal law and education law. She clerked at Los Angeles Alternate Public Defender's Office last summer supporting indigent clients during arraignments in Compton. She interned at Legal Services for Children last fall helping youth fight expulsion charges and renew DACA permits. She was a summer associate for F3, an education law firm, this summer where she helped advise school districts with special education hearings, student issues including transgender students’ rights, labor issues and student privacy issues with education technology. She will be clerking at San Francisco's Public Defender's Office this fall.

Alice Wang

Alice Yiqian Wang is a 2L at Yale Law School. During her time at YLS, she was Treasurer for the Asian Pacific American Law Students’ Association, Professional Development Chair for Yale Law Women+, and Submissions Director for the Yale Journal on Regulation. She also provided pro bono services through the Immigrant Rights Clinic and the International Refugee Assistance Project. Outside of law school, Alice is a Ph.D. candidate in Political Science at Stanford University, where her research concerns judicial decision-making and executive control over the U.S. immigration courts. During her 1L summer, she worked at the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Hawaii, where she assisted AUSAs with legal research and drafted a brief for the Ninth Circuit. After graduating with her B.A. in Philosophy and B.A. in Government from Smith College, Alice received her M.A. in Political and Legal Theory from the University of Warwick on a U.S.-U.K. Fulbright scholarship.

Apanuba Mahmood

Apanuba Mahmood is a current 2L at King Hall, UC Davis School of Law. She received her undergraduate degree from the University of Toronto in Canada, double majoring in International Relations and Japanese Studies. Pre-pandemic, she also spent a year abroad at the University of Tokyo. During the pandemic, she worked as a contributor and research editor with the University of Toronto affiliated G7 Research Group, as well as doing work in freelance illustration on the side. Apanuba has a big interest in the intersection of international law and human rights, and she hopes to incorporate her experience living in different countries in her future career. She is the President of King Hall International Law Association (KHILA) and is an active member of APALSA (Asian-Pacific American Law Students Association) and an editor on the King Hall Journal of International Law and Policy (JILP). This past summer, Apanuba was a law clerk with Asian Law Alliance working primarily with the immigration team on assisting low-income and minority clients with their immigration issues. She is passionate about helping the Asian American community and as a Bay Area native, hopes to find work in the area after graduation.

Millicent Wong

Millicent Wong is a 2L at UC Law San Francisco (formerly UC Hastings). Originally from the San Gabriel Valley, Millie earned her B.S. in Interactive Media Arts and B.A. in Social Sciences at New York University Shanghai. As an undergraduate, she helped lead diversity programming for NYU Shanghai’s international student body and interned for VP Kamala Harris’ Senate office. Prior to law school, Millie worked in D.C. for an administrative law nonprofit called Democracy Forward Foundation.

Currently at UC Law SF, Millie is a staff editor on UC Law Journal and serves on the board of UC Law Associated Students, First Generation Professionals, and OUTLaw. She hopes to use this platform from APABA SV and BALIF to help champion intersectional perspectives in the legal profession. In her downtime, Millie enjoys PC building and playing Baldur’s Gate 3!

Justin Reyes

First-generation Filipino American GGU Law grad Justin Reyes has always been passionate about law. As a kid, he drafted a contract for his sister to ensure she cleaned her room, and in the 8th grade, he devoured John Grisham’s The Firm. Today, he wants to use the law to expand representation for people of color within the legal profession.  

At GGU Law, he wrote an article for the Race, Gender, Sexuality, and Social Justice Law Journal about discrimination faced by people of color working in elite law firms and what obstacles prevent them from attaining certain positions or notices.  

Writing for the Journal is one of his many impactful opportunities at GGU, including clerking for the Honorable Johnny Cepeda Gogo and participating in Jeffrey G. Miller National Environmental Law Moot Court and McGeorge’s National Ethics Trial competition. But his most impactful experience came while working at a small civil firm where he helped secure a favorable judgment for a single mother and her son against a real estate broker that defrauded them.  

Outside of law school, Justin was a law clerk at the Santa Clara County District Attorney’s Office, where he plans to do his post-bar after the February ’23 Bar exam.

Emerald Tse

Emerald Tse is a recent graduate of the UC Davis School of Law and incoming Justice Fellow at the Center of Privacy and Technology at Georgetown Law. As a high school student, she facilitated workshops to grow the civic engagement of AAPI youths and parents as an intern at Asian Americans Advancing Justice and gathered with community members at Monterey Park City Hall to oppose a proposed ordinance that sought to discriminate against the city's predominantly AAPI immigrant community. Emerald carried these lessons of zealous advocacy to her time as a law student, during which she explored issues of privacy and surveillance with Privacy Rights Clearinghouse, the California Attorney General's Office, Just Futures Law, and San Francisco City Attorney's Office. During law school, Emerald also served as board members of the Asian Pacific American Law Student Association, the Lambda Law Students Association, the King Hall Intellectual Property Law Association, as well as a student liaison to her local AAPI bar association.