Cayli Pham serves as a Legal Extern for ACLU Louisiana for Summer 2024. Within this role, she is committed to promoting ACLU’s mission of advocating for civil rights and liberties.
She graduated from Louisiana State University and LSU’s Roger Hadfield Ogden Honors College with a Bachelor of Arts in Sociology in August 2023. During undergrad, she participated in LSU’s Cold Case Project, working to bring closure to the families and the nation for the unsolved Klan-related homicides in Louisiana and southern Mississippi during the Civil Rights era. She is currently attending LSU’s Paul M. Hebert Law Center as a Juris Doctor and Diploma in Comparative Law Candidate for 2025.
She is a New Orleans native and the daughter of Vietnamese immigrants who found refuge in New Orleans East. The East notoriously consists of minorities and has consistently been underrepresented. Since Hurricane Katrina happened nineteen years ago, there has been little to no redevelopment in her hometown. She understands the necessity of seeing the law at the crossroads where it undoubtedly occurs and aims to use her position to help those who have been left at the crossroads. The legitimate means and tools to achieve the "American Dream" should not be unattainable. It is her mission to ensure that liberation is not an American trial.
