Liz Jacob

Liz Jacob (she/her) is a passionate advocate for environmental justice and deeply committed in serving movements to equitably solve the climate crisis and build a healthier, more just world for all. Prior to starting law school, Liz worked for years to advance federal environmental policy, organize for immigration justice, and serve alongside her colleagues to organize a union and negotiate their first Collective Bargaining Agreement. Liz has also served directly alongside environmental justice leaders at the Gulf Coast Center for Law and Policy, the Water Protector Legal Collective, and WE ACT for Environmental Justice.  

At YLS, Liz is studying law at the intersection of environmental justice, movement building, and workers rights. Liz is an active member of the National Lawyers Guild, the Immigrant Justice Project, the Yale Environmental Law Association, the First Generation Professionals, the Asian Pacific American Law Students Association, the Woman of Color Collective, and the Yale Journal of Law and Feminism. Beyond the law school, Liz is an organizer with the Washington-Baltimore News Guild, a legal intern at the City of New Haven’s Food Policy Department, and a member of the Semilla Collective, a community-based mutual aid collective in New Haven.