Kim Thuy Seelinger

Kim Thuy Seelinger is the Director of the Sexual Violence & Accountability Project at the Human Rights Center (HRC) at UC Berkeley Law School, where she pursues interdisciplinary strategies to combat gender-based violence and impunity. Prior to joining the HRC, Kim was a staff attorney and clinical instructor at the Center for Gender and Refugee Studies at UC Hastings College of the Law, co-teaching the Refugee and Human Rights Clinic and representing asylum seekers fleeing gender-based violence. Kim had previously worked as a Yale-China Association Legal Education Fellow in southwest China and as immigration staff attorney with Lutheran Family & Community Services in New York City. She has published and presented extensively on gender-based violence, persecution based on sexual orientation, and developments in asylum jurisprudence.  Her current interests include the intersection of women's rights and health status abroad, as well as the ongoing psycho-social needs of refugee communities here in the U.S. Kim graduated with high honors from the University of Virginia.

She received her J.D. from New York University School of Law.