Bio
Adrienna Wong is a senior staff attorney at the ACLU of Southern California, where her work focuses on police practices and economic justice. Before she joined the ACLU of Southern California in 2014, she was an Arthur Liman Fellow at the ACLU of Texas, where she documented abuses in prisons and immigration detention centers and was involved in litigation to hold private prison contractors accountable.
Adrienna graduated from the University of California, Berkeley and Yale Law School. She clerked on the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals for Judge A. Wallace Tashima, and on the District Court for the Central District of California for Judge Margaret Morrow.
Featured Work
California's Justice System is a Debt Trap
Erica Smith was making a fresh start. After being forced out of her home by domestic violence, she had spent the last three years cycling between homelessness and jail for petty offenses. But with the help of reentry organization Starting Over Inc., she finally secured stable housing and a job helping women who had experienced challenges like hers. She found community support in the Riverside chapter of All of Us or None. She was building a better life for herself and her daughter.
