MoFo Celebrates Women – #InspireInclusion – An Evening in Conversation with Amanda Chong

In celebration of International Women's Day, MoFo Singapore hosted a special event titled “MoFo Celebrates Women – #InspireInclusion – An Evening in Conversation with Amanda Chong” on April 23 to discuss Amanda's work on human rights, anti-trafficking, and gender equality, all while being a successful poet and writer.

Speakers

Amanda Chong, Lawyer, Poet, Playwright, and Advocate

Amanda Chong is a lawyer trained in Cambridge and Harvard who explores themes of gender and power in her work as a poet and playwright. Her poetry collection, Professions was shortlisted for the Singapore Literature Prize in 2018. Her poetry has been engraved on the Marina Bay Helix Bridge and included in the Cambridge International GCSE syllabus. Her plays include the one woman show Psychobitch, which sold out its extended run (Wild Rice, 2023), the musical The Feelings Farm (Esplanade – Theatres on the Bay, 2021) and the award-winning #WomenSupportingWomen, (T:>Works, 2022) which was also staged in Cambridge, UK.

In her legal career, Amanda is a public international lawyer with practice interests in law of the sea, human rights and international environmental law. She served on the United Nations Expert Group on Trafficking in Persons in 2016. Amanda is also a passionate advocate for social justice and co-founded a literacy charity. She presented a CNA documentary on the social impact of laws in Singapore’s history including the abolition of servitude and enshrining of women's rights. Amongst her many accolades, Amanda was appointed to the Panel of Advisers to the Youth Court by the President of Singapore in 2020 and received the Commonwealth Points of Light Award in 2022 from Her Majesty The Queen Elizabeth II.

Yi-Jun Kang, Associate, Litigation, Morrison Foerster Singapore

Yi-Jun's practice focuses on commercial litigation and international arbitration. She has a broad range of experience spanning a variety of industry sectors in shareholder, mergers and acquisitions, private equity, joint venture, and other types of disputes. She has represented numerous conglomerates and multinational corporations in complex cross-border commercial arbitrations under various arbitral rules. Yi-Jun is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, a member of the YSIAC Council, a member of the Alternative Dispute Resolution Committee of the Law Society of Singapore, and an Assistant Editor for Southeast Asia of the Kluwer Arbitration Blog. Outside of work, Yi-Jun has her hands full with her two young children, Alexandria and Ari.