Karen C. Tumlin

Karen C. Tumlin is a Visiting Lecturer in Law at Yale Law School and the Founder and Director of the Justice Action Center, a nonprofit organization that advances justice for immigrants through litigation and storytelling. She was previously Director of Legal Strategy and Legal Director at the National Immigration Law Center. Tumlin is admitted to practice in California; the Supreme Court of the United States; the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia and the Second, Fourth, Fifth, Ninth, and Eleventh 11th Circuits; U.S. District Courts for the Central, Northern, and Southern Districts of California; and the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. Among other honors, Tumlin has held a Luce Scholarship, in which capacity she worked with Chulalongkorn University’s Asian Research Center for Migration and the International Rescue Committee in Bangkok, Thailand. She has taught at Loyola Law School as an Adjunct Professor. Tumlin graduated from Brown University, where she participated in Varsity track and cross-country, with honors in Public Policy and Educational Studies. She earned an M.P.P. and a J.D. at the University of California, Berkeley. She clerked for the Honorable Dorothy W. Nelson of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Tumlin is conversant in Thai.