Lynn Ta is a first generation refugee and an attorney, scholar, and educator. She previously served as a judicial law clerk to the Honorable Harry Pregerson on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, and has worked to enforce workers' rights as a civil prosecutor with the National Labor Relations Board and the California Department of Industrial Relations. She has also served as court-appointed counsel to indigent defendants in their criminal appeals and pro bono counsel for survivors of sex and labor trafficking. She was an attorney fellow at the American Civil Liberties Union of San Diego and Imperial Counties, and was part of a litigation team that represented genocide survivors at the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia, a United Nations hybrid tribunal prosecuting the war crimes of Khmer Rouge officials. Recently, she served as a legal observer at the military commissions at Guantanamo Bay and is currently a Government Fellow with the American Bar Association's Labor and Employment Law Section.

As a scholar, Lynn has published articles on human rights accountability in World Bank development projects, Constitutional rights at the U.S.-Mexico border, and gender and cultural theory. She has taught classes on diversity, Constitutional law, Asian American literature, and international relations at the University of California, San Diego and the University of Southern California. She has a Ph.D. in literature from the University of California, San Diego, and a law degree from the University of California, Berkeley School of Law.