“Julie” Yihong Mao is a staff attorney at the National Immigration Project. Previously, she was a staff attorney at the New Orleans Workers’ Center for Racial Justice, where she provided legal and strategic support to its membership of immigrant workers in the Deep South and guestworkers across the country.
She has represented immigrants in civil rights litigation against the unlawful practices of law enforcement, provided legal campaign support that led to the end of ICE holds in New Orleans, and worked with hundreds of grassroots community members to fight their deportations and demand ICE accountability. A former Equal Justice Works fellow, Julie is a 2011 graduate of NYU School of Law, where she was a Root-Tilden-Kern Scholar and a student of the NYU Immigrant Rights Clinic.
