Sharon Hing

Before joining the ILRC, Sharon was a litigation associate at Coblentz Patch Duffy & Bass LLP. Sharon clerked for the Honorable Harry Pregerson of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. She previously worked for Asian Americans/Pacific Islanders in Philanthropy.

Sharon earned her law degree from the University of California Los Angeles School of Law, with a specialization in critical race studies and concentration in the Epstein Program in Public Interest Law and Policy. While in law school, she worked with Legal Services of Northern California, Public Counsel’s Immigrants’ Rights Project, and ACLU of Northern California. She also served as editor-in-chief of the Asian Pacific American Law Journal and co-chair of the El Centro Legal Reentry Legal Clinic. Sharon received her undergraduate degrees in fine art, international development studies, and history cum laude from the University of California Los Angeles, where she was a Regents Scholar. She is conversant in Cantonese and is a member of the State Bar of California.