Bethany Li is the legal director at the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund, where she uses a community lawyering model to fight for social justice in Asian American communities and advance racial equity. In collaboration with community organizers, Bethany has litigated cases and led advocacy work on a range of civil rights issues, including housing and displacement, workers’ rights, immigration and deportation defense, education equity, language access, and hate violence. Bethany led an amicus brief at the Supreme Court with 121 Asian American groups and educators in support of race-conscious admissions at Harvard University and the University of North Carolina that was cited by Justice Sotomayor’s dissent in SFFA v. President and Fellows of Harvard. She is also co-counsel to a multi-racial coalition of organizations and families who intervened in a lawsuit to support Boston Public Schools’ shift in admissions policy. Bethany was previously the Asian Outreach Center director at Greater Boston Legal Services, the Robert M. Cover Fellow in Yale Law School’s Veterans Legal Services Clinic, and an Equal Justice Works Fellow and staff attorney at AALDEF. Bethany graduated from Georgetown University Law Center and Amherst College.