Wang served as a fellow with the ACLU from 1997 to 1998. She then joined the federal public defender's office for the
Southern District of New York as a staff attorney. She later entered private practice law firm of
Keker & Van Nest, LLP in
San Francisco. Wang was appointed to the federal Criminal Justice Act indigent defense panel for the
Northern District of California. She then became the director of the ACLU Immigrants' Rights Project. Wang joined the national ACLU as a deputy legal director directing their Center for Democracy. Wang was mentioned by the legal organization
Demand Justice as a potential nominee for a federal judgeship by President
Joe Biden.
Notable cases • In 2010, Wang was part of the legal team that won a class action lawsuit against a policy and practice of racial profiling and illegal detentions by the
Maricopa County Sheriff's Office. The court ruled that Arizona Sheriff
Joe Arpaio's department has violated the rights of Latino drivers by racially profiling them. • In 2011, Wang was part of the legal team in a civil rights lawsuit challenging
Alabama's
HB 56 anti-immigrant law. • In 2014, Wang was part of the legal team that won a victory in a class action lawsuit challenging an
Arizona constitutional amendment that prohibited bail to suspected undocumented immigrants. The court ruled the amendment violated the
Due Process Clause of the
Fourteenth Amendment. • In 2017, Wang was part of the legal team that represented nine
Delta Air Lines passengers that sued the
Department of Homeland Security and
CBP. The passenger's lawsuit claims they were forced to provide identification before de-boarding a domestic flight from San Francisco to
New York. • In 2026, Wang argued against the revocation of birthright citizenship in
Trump v. Barbara, a pending case at the Supreme Court of the United States. ==References==