Lam Nguyen Ho is the Executive Director of Beyond Legal Aid (Beyond). Lam founded Beyond with support from the Harvard Law School Public Service Venture Fund, Ashoka, and Echoing Green. He was a Wasserstein Public Interest, TED, and KIND Fellow.

Prior to founding Beyond, he was a staff attorney at Equip for Equality, where he defended the civil rights of people with disabilities. After graduating from Harvard Law School in 2008, Lam joined Legal Aid Chicago through a Skadden Foundation Public Interest Fellowship. During his time at Legal Aid Chicago, he established and ran 10 community-based clinics providing free legal services to youth and their families on the west side of Chicago. He experienced firsthand the challenges of community lawyering and civil legal services, and was inspired to innovatively confront these challenges through the creation of Beyond.

He holds additional graduate degrees from Brown University, where he completed its 4-year combined M.A./A.B. program, and the University of Oxford, where he was a Marshall Scholar and Sub-Dean of Wadham College. He was previously Chairperson of the HIV/AIDS Response Review Panel for the State of Illinois and served on the boards of the Community Law Project and the Vietnamese Association of Illinois. He is on the national leadership council for Frontline Justice.