Elizabeth R. OuYang has been a civil rights attorney for more than thirty years. Her areas of expertise include census, voting rights, immigration, race and disability discrimination in employment, housing and public accommodations, and combating police brutality, and hate crimes. Currently, OuYang is a census trainer with APIA VOTE (Asian Pacific Islander American VOTE), a national organization dedicated to increasing the civic participation of APIA’s. She was a census consultant to the New York Immigration Coalition and the coordinator of New York Counts 2020, the first statewide coalition of more than 100 diverse stakeholder organizations seeking a fair and accurate 2020 Census. Post 9/11, OuYang served as an immigration consultant to the New York Immigration Coalition in collaboration with the City of New York Bar Association to conduct pro bono advice clinics throughout New York City to the Arab, Muslim, and South Asian communities targeted by post 9/11 government policies. In 2000, OuYang was appointed by President Clinton to serve as a special assistant to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. For eight years, OuYang worked as a staff attorney with the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund and with the Disability Law Center in Boston, MA for three years. OuYang is the former past president of OCA-New York Asian Pacific American Advocates.