Jennifer Chou

Jennifer Chou is a senior staff attorney and the Interim co-director for the Gender, Sexuality & Reproductive Justice Program at the ACLU of Northern California. Her work focuses on securing gender, reproductive, and LGBTQ+ justice for all California students.

She leads ACLU’s statewide campaigns to implement California’s comprehensive sexual health education mandate and to ensure enforcement of the Support Academic Futures and Educators for Today’s Youth Act (SAFETY Act), which she helped spearhead in 2024 and which codifies longstanding California law and policy prohibiting school districts from requiring staff to forcibly out LGBTQ+ students.

Before joining the ACLU, Jennifer was an If/When/How Reproductive Justice Fellow with the National Asian Pacific American Women's Forum, where she authored a policy agenda about the reproductive health status and needs of Asian American and Pacific Islander women. She currently sits on the board of the Women’s Foundation of California, which is dedicated to building and funding community power through a lens of feminism, intersectionality, and abundance.

Jennifer earned her law degree from the David J. Epstein Program in Public Interest Law and Policy at the UCLA School of Law, where, in UCLA’s Appellate Advocacy Clinic, she successfully argued a case in front of the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. As a student at Wellesley College, Jennifer earned her B.A. in Political Science and Women’s Studies and was a part of a decades-long student movement to fight for Asian American Studies and Critical Race Studies on campus.

In her spare time, Jennifer enjoys hiking, thrifting, and living out her dream of being within walking distance of her local library.