Her non-law book publications include Chinese Women Traversing Diaspora: Memoirs, Essays, and Poetry (ed.,1999).

She received her Bachelor of Arts from Sarah Lawrence College and her Juris Doctor from the New York University School of Law, where she was a Root-Tilden Scholar.

She was a Fulbright Scholar in China (1986–88), served on the U.S.-China Committee on Legal Education Exchange with China (CLEEC) (1990–2000), and was a faculty member and program director for the U.S. Clinical Legal Education Workshop convened at Tsinghua University School of Law (2000).

She has participated in numerous Non-Governmental Organization, corporate, multilateral and bilateral consultations and workshops.

She has testified on behalf of HRIC before a number of international policy makers, including the US House Committee on Foreign Affairs and the European Parliament, and has given numerous presentations at major conferences on human rights and China organized by non-governmental groups such as the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace[4] and World Press Freedom Committee.