Shiu-Ming Cheer
Shiu-Ming Cheer spearheads the National Immigration Law Center's bridge-building efforts to support a healthy, powerful, and purposeful movement in her role as the Director of Movement Building & Strategic Partnerships. At NILC, Cheer has also focused on challenging immigration enforcement, advancing access to status, and incorporating a field perspective into the work. Previously, she held the positions of Soros Justice Fellow and managing attorney at the Catholic Legal Immigration Network’s Los Angeles Detention Project and children’s attorney at the Florence Immigrant and Refugee Rights Project. In those roles, she represented detained immigrants facing deportation. She was also the civil rights coordinator at South Asian Network and a public benefits attorney at Neighborhood Legal Services of Los Angeles County. Cheer holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of California, Berkeley, and a juris doctor from the UCLA School of Law Epstein Program in Public Interest Law and Policy. She has a long history of involvement in social justice organizing projects, campaigns, and coalitions and has served on the Boards of the Filipino Migrant Center, Khmer Girls in Action and the Koreatown Immigrant Workers Alliance (KIWA). Cheer has received awards for her community and legal work from the Long Beach Immigrant Rights Coalition, the National Lawyers Guild – LA, and KIWA.