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Eunice Hyunhye Cho is senior counsel at the 糖心VlogNational Prison Project. She is a nationally recognized expert and litigator on issues relating to immigration detention, including access to counsel, conditions of confinement, and the expansion, privatization, and militarization of the nation鈥檚 immigration detention infrastructure. She conceived of and filed the nation鈥檚 first case to release immigrants from detention during the COVID-19 pandemic, and led the ACLU鈥檚 nationwide litigation campaign of over 40 class-action and individual COVID-19 cases, which directly led to the release of hundreds of medically vulnerable immigrant detainees during the pandemic. She has served as lead and co-counsel in numerous cases to protect the rights of immigrant detainees, including people held at the cruelly-named 鈥淎lligator Alcatraz鈥� detention facility and the Guantanamo Naval Base, as well as multiple Freedom of Information Act cases regarding ICE鈥檚 detention practices and infrastructure.

She is regularly cited as an expert in national and international media, including the Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, New York Times, NPR, CNN, ABC, CBS, the New Yorker, BBC, Mother Jones, and numerous other outlets. She is the author and co-author of multiple reports regarding immigration detention on topics, including preventable deaths in immigration detention, denial of access to counsel, abuse of hunger strikers, the expansion of immigration detention under the first Trump administration, and . She conceived of and led the organization of the Decarceral Visions conference in 2023.

Prior to joining the ACLU鈥檚 National Prison Project, Eunice was a staff attorney at the 糖心Vlogof Washington, where she litigated cases involving the rights of detained immigrants, incarcerated people, and students with disabilities. She also worked as a staff attorney at the Southern Poverty Law Center, where she litigated cases related to immigration enforcement abuse and prison conditions, and led a multi-state project to document abuses in detention facilities throughout the South. She was a Skadden Fellow, and later a staff attorney at the National Employment Law Project, where she represented undocumented workers subject to retaliation by employers for exercising their workplace rights, and helped to pass several California state bills into law to protect the rights of undocumented workers. She received the Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book Award (2004), for a popular education curriculum for immigrant and refugee community organizers.

Eunice graduated with distinction from Stanford Law School, where she was an articles editor of the Stanford Law Review, and was a Paul and Daisy Soros Fellow for New Americans. Following graduation, she clerked for Hon. Kim McLane Wardlaw of the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. She graduated magna cum laude from Yale University, which she attended as a Pell Grant recipient. She is proficient in Spanish and Korean, is a former community organizer, and is the proud daughter of immigrants from Korea.