Sunnie Liu

Sunnie Liu is an artist, organizer, and Public Interest Scholar at Berkeley Law adding movement lawyering to the advocacy toolkit. Born in rural China but raised in Houston, Texas as the child of Chinatown workers, Sunnie is committed to movements at the intersection of racial and economic justice. Sunnie graduated with degrees in Studio Art and History from Yale University. Before law school, Sunnie served as a Narrative Strategist for a criminal legal advocacy nonprofit, worked on a historic impact litigation case suing Uber for racial discrimination against drivers of color with criminal records, and organized for workers' and tenants' rights in Manhattan’s Chinatown. Sunnie also is a co-founder of the transnational nonprofit Xin Sheng |心声 Project, chapter author of the anthology The Politics of the Multiracial Right, and nationally exhibited artist working across sculpture, installation, and lens-based practices. At Berkeley Law, Sunnie not only leads the Abolitionist Collective and Tenants' Rights Workshop, but also is a clinical student for the Policy Advocacy Clinic and Homelessness Advocacy Clinic.