Shiu-Ming Cheer
Shiu-Ming Cheer is the Director of Movement Building & Strategic Partnerships with the National Immigration Law Center. Previously, Cheer was a practicing attorney at Los Angeles Detention Project, the Florence Immigrant and Refugee Rights Project, South Asian Network, and Neighborhood Legal Services of Los Angeles County. In those roles, she represented detained immigrant adults and children facing deportation. Shiu-Ming has served on the Boards of the Filipino Migrant Center, Khmer Girls in Action and the Koreatown Immigrant Workers Alliance (KIWA), and received awards for her community and legal work from the Long Beach Immigrant Rights Coalition, the National Lawyers Guild – LA, and KIWA.