Winifred Kao is Asian Americans Advancing Justice - Asian Law Caucus's Litigation Director. She also leads Asian Americans Advancing Justice - Asian Law Caucus's workers' rights program. Previously, Kao worked at a union-side labor and employment law firm where she primarily represented hotel and restaurant workers and unions in a wide variety of labor, employment, constitutional, and class-action cases. Kao was also a trial attorney for the United States Department of Justice Civil Rights Division, where she litigated housing and public accommodation discrimination cases. Kao has worked as an organizer for labor/civil rights groups. She is a graduate of Yale College and the University of Michigan Law School.