Ming-Qi Chu (she/her/hers) is the Deputy Director of the Women’s Rights Project at the American Civil Liberties Union and currently focuses on employment and pregnancy discrimination issues. Before joining the ACLU, she served in the Biden Administration as Senior Counsel to the Solicitor of Labor, where she advised on a range of executive priorities, including the implementation of the Racial Equity and Gender Equity Executive Orders and the issuance of an Emergency Temporary Standard to protect the safety and health of workers during the COVID-19 pandemic. Prior to her work in the federal government, Ming was Chief of the Civil Enforcement Section in the Labor Bureau of the New York Attorney General’s Office, where she oversaw strategic litigation and investigations across the state. Ming was additionally part of the New York Attorney General’s litigation team challenging federal administrative action during the Trump Administration. She was one of the lead counsel for the State of New York in the Title X litigation, Oregon, New York, et al. v. Azar, and the Public Charge litigation, New York, et al. v. Department of Homeland Security. Ming has also worked in private practice at the labor and employment firm, Vladeck, Raskin, and Clark, P.C, and as a Lecturer-in-Law at Columbia Law School. She is a graduate of Columbia Law School and Yale College.