Michael K.T. Tan is a Visiting Clinical Lecturer in Law at Yale Law School and Senior Advisor to the Co-Presidents of Community Change, a nationwide organization that empowers low-income people, particularly low-income people of color, to lead movements for social change. From 2008 to 2022, Tan held a range of roles at the Immigrants’ Rights Project of the American Civil Liberties Union, where he began as a recipient of Yale Law School’s Arthur Liman Fellowship. Most recently, he served as the Project’s Deputy Director. In 2017, Tan received the Best LGBT Lawyer Under 40 Award from the National LGBT Bar Association. He was also recognized with the Best Under 40 Award from the National Asian Pacific American Bar Association in 2016 and named California Lawyer of the Year in Immigration Law by California Lawyer in 2014. Tan received a J.D. from Yale Law School, an M.A. in Comparative Literature from New York University, and a B.A. from Harvard College.
