Biography of Christine Sun

Christine P. Sun is a staff attorney at the Immigrants' Rights Project. Prior to joining IRP, Christine was Deputy Legal Director at the Southern Poverty Law Center, where she directed SPLC's economic justice work and work on behalf of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) community. She also previously served as senior counsel for the national ACLU's LGBT and AIDS Project, where she was lead counsel on numerous cases involving the rights of LGBT people. Christine has spoken nationally and internationally on civil rights issues, including in the Philippines through a program facilitated by the U.S. Department of State. Christine graduated with honors in 1998 from New York University School of Law, where she was an editor of the NYU Law Review. After graduation, Christine served as a law clerk for Judge Robert L. Carter on the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York and then worked in private practice for Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton in New York and Keker & Van Nest in San Francisco. She was recognized in 2010 by the National LGBT Bar Association as one of the "Best LGBT Lawyers Under 40." In 2012, she received a Distinguished Alumna award from NYU Law School's alumni association for minority lawyers.