Kim Thuy Seelinger
KIM THUY SEELINGER is the Director of the Sexual
Violence & Accountability Project. She oversees the Center’s
teaching, fieldwork, and writing on conflict-related sexual violence.
She also supervises Berkeley Law students in human rights research and
project work. Prior to joining the Center, Seelinger was a staff
attorney at
the Center for Gender and Refugee Studies at UC Hastings College of the
Law, where she co-taught the Refugee and Human Rights Clinic and
represented asylum seekers fleeing gender-based violence. She had
previously worked as a staff attorney at Lutheran Family & Community
Services in New York City, as well as the 2005-2006 Yale-China
Association Clinical Law Fellow. Seelinger’s practice and scholarship
focuses on refugee law, persecution based on sexual orientation, and the
intersection between health and gender-based violence. She has
conducted fieldwork in Uganda, Vietnam, Haiti, Kenya, and Liberia.
Seelinger
graduated from NYU School of Law. Contact Kim Thuy Seelinger.