Eunice is a nationally recognized expert and litigator on issues relating to immigration detention, including access to counsel, conditions of confinement, and the expansion, privatization, and militarization of the nation’s immigration detention infrastructure.
Prior to joining NIJC, Eunice was senior counsel at the ACLU’s National Prison Project, where she litigated multiple cases to protect the rights of immigrants in detention, including those held at Alligator Alcatraz, 26 Federal Plaza, and the Guantanamo Naval Base. She conceived of the nation’s first case to release immigrants from detention during the COVID-19 pandemic, and led the ACLU’s nationwide litigation campaign of over 40 class action and individual cases during the pandemic. She is the author and co-author of multiple reports regarding the rights of immigrants, including preventable deaths in immigration detention, denial of access to counsel, abuse of hunger strikers, the expansion of immigration detention under the first Trump administration, and immigration detention in U.S. South. She has also worked as an attorney with the ACLU of Washington and the Southern Poverty Law Center, and was a Skadden Fellow at the National Employment Law Project. She served as a clerk to the Hon. Kim McLane Wardlaw of the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.
Eunice graduated with distinction from Stanford Law School, and magna cum laude from Yale University. She is a former community organizer, and is the proud daughter of immigrants from Korea.