Peggy Li

Senior Director of Chapters

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.

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ACS Info Session with Peggy Li

August 29, 2024

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ACS Info Session with Peggy Li

March 25, 2024

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ACS Info Session with Peggy Li

May 15, 2023

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ACS Board Meeting with Peggy Li

January 25, 2023

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ACS Info Session with Peggy Li

April 3, 2019

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Finding Hope in Visibility

Peggy Li March 23, 2021

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ACS San Diego: 2024 Annual Reception

September 17, 2024

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ACS Member News: November 2022

December 1, 2022

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Support Abortion Funds

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ACS Intro Meeting and Discussion on SB1

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March 18, 2021

 

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Student Chapter Handbook

December 18, 2020

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ACS Austin: Lunch with ACS National

February 7, 2019

 

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Lawyer Chapter Handbook

January 4, 2019

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ACS Austin: Lunch with ACS National

September 28, 2018

 

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Students of ACS

July 21, 2017

 

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Student Chapter of the Week

March 31, 2011

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Pre-Convention Events

May 24, 2022

 

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2017-2018 Students of ACS

August 20, 2018