Shim, Jane

Jane Shim

Jane Shim is Senior Policy Attorney at Immigrant Defense Project  Jane works on state and federal advocacy that fights the criminalization of immigrants. She helps lead IDP’s work on the ICE Out of Courts Campaign and the Justice Roadmap. Her work is focused on responses to ICE policing practices, advocacy for noncitizens in prison, and interventions that shrink the scope of criminal punishment. Before joining IDP, she worked on civil and pro bono litigation at WilmerHale. Jane earned her J.D. from Yale Law School, where she was a member of the Worker and Immigrant Rights Advocacy and Legal Services for Immigrant Communities clinics. She is a former Fulbright Scholar in poetry.