Class of 2008-09 Attorney Advisor Social Security Administration Office of Disability Adjudication and Review 5107 Leesburg Pike One Skyline Tower -- Room 304 Falls Church, VA 22041 Phone: (703) 605-8440

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Nancy Chung received her J.D. from the University of Baltimore School of Law and her B.A. from the University of Virginia.  During law school, she served as a student attorney in the Family Law Clinic representing domestic violence victims in protective order proceedings and divorce and custody matters.  Active in many organizations throughout law school, Nancy has served as President of the Asian Pacific American Law Student Association (APALSA), Co-President of the Student’s Supporting the Women’s Law Center (SSWLC), Manuscripts Editor of the University of Baltimore Law Forum Journal, and Board Member At-Large of the Moot Court Board.  In APALSA, Nancy has served for two consecutive years as chairperson of the Minority Women in the Law Forum, an annual forum in which minority women talk about the challenges they face in public and private sector law.  Nancy was also instrumental in the SSWLC’s Domestic Violence Clothesline Project, where she had t-shirts decorated by domestic violence victims displayed throughout her law school.  Moreover, Nancy has published two “Recent Developments” in the University of Baltimore Law Forum Journal and was the Asian Pacific American Bar Association’s 2006 Scholarship recipient.  Outside of law school, Nancy clerked for the Maryland State Department of Education, Office of the Attorney General.  In addition, she interned for the Honorable Lynne Battaglia of the Court of Appeals of Maryland, where she received special recognition for her contributions in the Maryland Judicial Commission on Professionalism’s Final Report.  Nancy is a member of both the Maryland and Virginia Bars and has served as the Vice President of Education for the Asian Pacific American Bar Association of Maryland since June, 2007.

During her Fellowship with the National Asian Pacific Women's Forum, one of Nancy's major projects dealt with the HPV vaccine mandate for immigrants and proposed Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) regulations.  She drafted the sign-on letter for the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) urging for reversal of the mandate, as well as the talking points for the working group, and spearheaded numerous conference calls.  Nancy received many inquiries, including a request to be interviewed live for over 20 minutes on a radio show on the west coast by KPFK 90.7(FM) LA.  Nancy also drafted the HPV vaccination mandate issue statement for the National Coalition for Immigrant Women’s Rights and updated NAPAWF’s HPV brief.  She served as the spokesperson on this issue for the health committee of the National Coalition for Asian Pacific Americans at a meeting with U.S. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi’s outreach staff.  She also spoke on a panel for a Training and Access Working Group session, where she discussed how the mandate affected low-income and minority women.  After the Obama Administration took office, Nancy drafted a letter to the new acting director of the CDC for the working group made up of dozens of organizations opposed to the HPV vaccination mandate for immigrants.  She was also in charge of collecting all the sign-ons and sending the letter.  Nancy continued the work of previous WLPPFP fellows on a project analyzing possible reproductive and other health problems for workers in nail salons.  She supervised law students in their research of legislation, statutes and strategies for the nail salon project, drafting research questions for the students, reviewing their memos, and holding bi-weekly conference calls with them.  She was also in charge of making contacts at different federal agencies to learn what authority, if any, they have over cosmetics or nail salons and what opportunities exist for NAPAWF to work with them on the issue.  She did a lot of work with the National Healthy Nail Salon Alliance, which NAPAWF co-sponsored in Oakland, CA.  This was a two day event where nail salon workers, owners, advocates, industries, and state and federal agencies came together to discuss the issues surrounding the health of nail salon workers, owners, and customers, and to develop a prioritized list of research questions that need to be addressed to further this work.  Nancy facilitated a group each day to come up with research priority areas.  In addition, Nancy led NAPAWF’s work on the Prenatal Nondiscrimination Act, facilitating calls with the working group and the creation of an educational packet about this type of legislation.  Nancy also facilitated many panels and forums for NAPAWF.  She was the guest speaker for one of the workshops at the FUEL Conference at the University of Maryland, where she discussed reproductive justice and Asian Pacific American women with about 20 students.  At the Contraceptive Access Summit in New York, she co-facilitated the break-out discussion on “Cultural, Language Access, and Religious Barriers to Access and Use of Contraceptives.”  She also attended the SisterSong retreat in Georgia, and was on a panel for the National Advisory Board Meeting on Religious Regulations, where she spoke about the impact of the newly imposed HHS regulations on low income women and women of color.  Nancy also spoke at the Sex Selection Values Clarification Meeting held in New York, which addressed different values surrounding sex selection such as reproductive technology and family-planning issues.  Nancy gave a presentation on the recent state and federal bills that have been emerging which ban sex selection abortion, and facilitated the closing of the meeting.  Nancy also spearheaded a sign-on letter to Senators regarding the State Children’s Healthcare Improvement Program (SCHIP) and was responsible for collecting sign-ons for the letter.  Nancy also contributed to the new NAPAWF website and drafts NAPAWF’s policy newsletter every month.

Nancy recently accepted a position as an Attorney-Advisor with the Social Security Administration in Falls Church, Virginia.