Bio
Michael Tan is Deputy Director of the ºìÐÓÊÓÆµ Immigrants' Rights Project (IRP). From 2008 to 2022, Michael held a range of roles at IRP, where he began as a Liman Public Interest Fellow and later worked as a Skadden Fellow. Prior to returning to the ºìÐÓÊÓÆµ, Michael served as Senior Advisor to the Co-Presidents at Community Change, a nationwide organization that empowers low-income people, and particularly low-income people of color, to lead movements for social change. Michael was also a Clinical Lecturer in Law and Associate Research Scholar in Law at Yale Law School, where he co-taught the Worker and Immigrant Rights Advocacy Clinic, and served as Executive Director of The Movement Project, a new initiative on labor, climate, and migration issues.
Michael is a graduate of Harvard College and the Yale Law School and also holds a Master's Degree in Comparative Literature from New York University. He clerked for the Honorable M. Margaret McKeown of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. He has received several awards for his work, including a California Lawyer of the Year Award in Immigration Law, a Best Lawyers Under 40 Award from the National Asian Pacific American Bar Association, and a Best LGBT Lawyer Under the Age of 40 Award from the National LGBT Bar Association.
Featured work

Jan 7, 2022
The Biden Administration is on the Wrong Side in This Crucial Supreme Court Immigration Case

May 2, 2019
Attorney General Barr Says ICE Has Power to Lock Up Asylum Seekers Without Hearings

Feb 14, 2019
Trump Administration Is Illegally Forcing Asylum Seekers Out of the United States

Oct 2, 2018
No One Should Be Detained Without a Hearing While Fighting Deportation

Mar 15, 2018
ICE Is Illegally Imprisoning Asylum Seekers

Mar 5, 2018
Is It Constitutional to Lock Up Immigrants Indefinitely?

Feb 26, 2018
A Supreme Court Rebuke to the Trump Administration on DACA

Dec 22, 2017
Dreamers Shouldn’t Lose DACA Status When They Follow the Rules

Oct 26, 2017
Why Is the Trump Administration Targeting This Outspoken Dreamer?