Our People

Chengying oversees impact and outcomes evaluation across Pro Bono SG’s programmes and provides strategic leadership and planning support for Pro Bono SG’s community lawyering initiative, which delivers integrated legal care to the most socially excluded through strong partnerships with the social service sector, and the establishment of Community Law Centres in the heartlands. She speaks frequently at various legal events and participated in NCSS’s 40-Under-40 programme which is a distinguished leadership initiative for social service sector leaders in 2023.       

Prior to joining Pro Bono SG in February 2020, Chengying was a litigator in private practice. She volunteered with Pro Bono SG’s various legal aid programmes after getting called to the Bar and was seconded to the Criminal Legal Aid Scheme to do full-time pro bono criminal defence work as a pioneer CLAS Fellow in 2015.