National Security & Civil Rights

Caroline Marks is a Staff Attorney in the National Security and Civil Rights Program at Asian Law Caucus. Caroline’s work focuses on, among other things, state legislative and administrative advocacy challenging surveillance and counterterrorism programs and narratives that harm Arab, Middle Eastern, Muslim and South Asian communities and other communities of color.

Before coming to ALC, Caroline worked on litigation and advocacy with the Center for Human Rights and Global Justice at NYU Law, to hold the United States responsible for its extraordinary rendition program—whereby the U.S. kidnapped and transferred individuals to black sites and proxy governments for their subsequent torture and secret detention. Specifically, Caroline participated significantly in litigation before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights in the case Mohamed et al. v. United States.

Caroline graduated from NYU School of Law and holds a BA in International Relations from Brown University. During her time at Brown, Caroline spent a semester Amman, Jordan learning the Levantine dialect and expanding her knowledge of modern standard Arabic.

Kanwalroop (Roop) Kaur Singh is a Staff Attorney in the National Security and Civil Rights Program at Asian Law Caucus. Previously, Kanwalroop served as Deputy County Counsel for the County of Santa Clara, where she advised county law enforcement agencies on legal compliance issues and represented the County of Santa Clara in civil litigation, conservatorship, and mental health matters. Prior to joining the County, she was a Deputy Attorney General in the Civil Rights Enforcement Section at the California Department of Justice, as part of the Attorney General’s Honors Program. As Deputy Attorney General, she investigated law enforcement agencies regarding unconstitutional policing practices and defended the State of California’s civil rights laws against challenges in federal court. She also advised the State of California’s Task Force to Study and Develop Reparation Proposals for African Americans and wrote portions of the Task Force’s 2022 Interim Report, which was presented to the California State Legislature.

Prior to attending law school, Kanwalroop worked as a radio reporter with KALW Public Radio, where she produced award winning radio documentaries about farmer suicide, agriculture, immigration from Punjab to California, and the California Sikh community. Her academic writing and creative writing has been published in the Asian American Writer's Workshop, Kweli Journal, Sikh Formations: Religion, Culture, Theory, and the UCLA Law Review. She received her J.D. from UCLA School of Law, specializing in Public Interest Law and Policy and Critical Race Studies, and her B.A. in Ethnic Studies from UC Berkeley.