Ting Ting Cheng, Director of the ERA Project at Columbia Law School Joins API Board of Directors (Alice Paul Institute Newsletter)

Alice Paul Institute welcomes civil rights attorney and activist Ting Ting Cheng to the organization's Board of Directors.

Cheng is a civil rights attorney and activist. Before joining the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) Project, she litigated gender discrimination cases at Legal Momentum, the Women's Legal Defense and Education Fund. Earlier, she was an attorney at the New York City Commission for Human Rights and a public defender and immigrant defense attorney at Brooklyn Defender Services. 

Cheng was the Legal Director of the 2017 Women's March on Washington and served on the National Organizing Committee. She was a foreign law clerk to Justices Albie Sachs and Edwin Cameron of the Constitutional Court of South Africa. In addition, Cheng was a Fulbright Scholar to South Africa where she received the Amy Biehl Award.

As a youth, she was a concert oboist and performed with various orchestras in the United States, including the American Symphony.

Cheng attended her first API board of directors meeting on Wednesday, April 26, 2023.

(Newsletter from Alice Paul Institute)

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