Cathi Choi is an attorney and activist. Previously, she worked at a civil rights law firm in Los Angeles, and clerked for Judge Denny Chin on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and Judge Gonzalo P. Curiel for the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California. She has organized community gatherings and written about progressive social movements spanning the Korean peninsula and the United States – including on the Gwangju Uprising and the activism of Diamond Kimm. Her writing is published in the Journal of Policy History and the UCLA Asian Pacific American Law Journal. She is based in Los Angeles and volunteers with GYOPO, a collective of diasporic Korean cultural producers and arts professionals organizing free educational programs. She obtained a JD from Harvard Law School. Prior to attending law school, she completed the Dual Degree International History Program at Columbia University and the London School of Economics, and obtained her BA from Columbia University cum laude in History and Art History.