Tuyet G. Duong

Tuyet G. Duong is a Senior Staff Attorney for the Immigration and Immigrant Rights Program with the Asian American Justice Center (AAJC); she currently leads the organization’s national educational campaigns on immigration reform as well as its immigration policy initiatives.

Previously, Ms. Duong led AAJC’s language rights and emergency preparedness program, which included advocating for Asian Americans impacted by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. Ms. Duong is the co-author of Language Rights: An Integration Agenda for Immigrant Communities, a briefing book for Congressional staff. She also authored a case study titled Hurricane Katrina: Models for Effective Emergency Response in the Asian American Community. This case study details Ms. Duong’s personal and professional experience working in the Gulf Coast Asian American communities in the aftermath of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita.

For two years Ms. Duong provided immigration legal assistance for a national ethnic nonprofit, BPSOS, Inc., in Houston, Texas. As a practitioner, she has had broad experience in naturalization issues, labor trafficking, family-based immigration, and domestic violence issues. Ms. Duong previously clerked at the Department of Justice Executive Office of Immigration Review in Los Angeles, California and at the Texas Civil Rights Project. Ms. Duong is a frequent speaker and trainer on immigration issues, language discrimination issues, and race relations.

Ms. Duong is the current Chairwoman of the Board of Directors of BPSOS, Inc. and is a founding board member of the Vietnamese American Bar Association of Washington, D.C. She holds a Juris Doctorate from the University of Texas Law School at Austin, Texas and a Bachelor’s degree in English from the University of Texas at Austin.