Department: Network Advancement

Peggy Li joined ACS in October 2015 and currently serves as the Senior Director of Chapters. In this capacity, she assists in managing the existing network of ACS chapters, facilitating the programming of chapters, working with members to realize their potential for creating a constructive dialogue for change, cultivating and supporting our next generation of progressive leaders, building connections and strengthening our progressive network, promoting diversity and inclusion throughout our network, seeking opportunities to found new ACS chapters, building and maintaining relationships with advisors, and integrating chapter activities and chapter members into ACS’s substantive initiatives and network of members.

Before joining ACS, Li served as a Staff Attorney at Legal Services of Northern California (LSNC) working primarily with rural seniors on elder, housing, and public benefits law. Li also served as a coordinator for LSNC’s Race Equity Project conducting research, facilitating monthly calls, spearheading office-wide projects, and providing trainings on framing, implicit bias, and social cognition. She has also been published in the Washington Monthly, the ACS Blog, the Akron Law Review, and the Berkeley Journal of Gender, Law & Justice.

Li currently serves as the Vice President for Programs and Operations for the National Filipino American Lawyers Association (she also co-chairs NFALA’s Advocacy Committee and serves on its Judicial and Executive Appointments and Nominations Committee). She is also a Steering Committee Member for the National Asian Pacific American Bar Association's Civil Rights Committee. She previously served as the Vice President of Community Relations for the Asian American Bar Association of Houston.

Li earned her B.A. in Mass Communications from the University of California, Los Angeles and her J.D. from the University of California, Berkeley School of Law. She is a member of the California State Bar (inactive) and the Texas State Bar. At Berkeley Law, Li was a William K. Coblentz Civil Rights Endowment Student Research Fellow at the Haas Institute for a Fair and Inclusive Society, a Managing Editor for the Berkeley Journal of Employment and Labor Law, and the President of the Berkeley Law ACS Student Chapter. She is an ACS Next Generation Leader.

Li lives in Houston with her husband.

Meghan Paulas joined ACS in May 2015 and currently serves as the Vice President of Network Advancement. In this capacity, she manages the existing network of ACS chapters, builds and maintains relationships with advisors, leaders, and members, and integrates network activities and network members into ACS’s substantive and volunteer initiatives. 

Before joining ACS, Paulas served as a Supervising Attorney Advisor at the Social Security Administration and as the Assistant General Counsel of the Illinois Human Rights Commission.  Paulas also served as the Chair of the ACS Chicago Lawyer Chapter Board of Directors.

Paulas graduated from the James Madison College at Michigan State University with a B.A. in Social Relations and Policy. She earned her J.D. from Chicago-Kent College of Law, where she was an ACS Student Chapter leader and spent most of her time in the Criminal Law Defense Clinic. Meghan is a member of the Chicago Council of Lawyers and currently serves on the Board of Directors for Life After Justice. 

Paulas is based in Chicago, where she lives with her husband, three kids, and dog Bailey.