Bio
Scarlet Kim is a senior staff attorney with the ACLU's Speech, Privacy, and Technology Project, where she works on litigation and advocacy to protect free speech and the right to privacy in the digital age. Scarlet was previously a senior staff attorney with the ACLU鈥檚 National Security Project, where she focused primarily on litigation and advocacy at the intersection of immigration and national security. Prior to joining the ACLU, Scarlet worked as a legal officer at Privacy International, an associate legal adviser at the International Criminal Court, and a Gruber Fellow in Global Justice at the New York Civil Liberties Union. She also served as a law clerk for the Hon. John Gleeson of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York. She is a graduate of Yale College and Yale Law School.
Featured work
Oct 17, 2025
The Journalist Who Spent More Than 100 Days in ICE Detention
Jan 10, 2025
We're Fighting Back Against Efforts to Intimidate Professors into Silence
Jan 17, 2022
Immigrant Service Members are Part of the Fabric of America
Aug 20, 2021
One Year Later, U.S. Service Members Are Still Awaiting Their Promised Pathway to Citizenship
May 27, 2021
Biden Must Honor Pledge to Immigrant Troops: Rescind Trump Policy Blocking Path to Citizenship
Apr 24, 2020
They Were Willing to Make the Ultimate Sacrifice for the U.S., but Trump Won't Let Them Become Americans
Feb 3, 2020
CBP Lied About Iranian-American Detentions, Leaked Memo Suggests
Dec 18, 2019
A Secret CBP Team is Targeting and Detaining Innocent Travelers. We鈥檙e Suing.
Nov 20, 2019
The U.S. Government Tracked, Detained, and Interrogated Journalists. We鈥檙e Suing on Their Behalf.