Zoe Lee-Park

Zoe Lee-Park is a Master of Environmental Science student at the Yale School of the Environment. She received a B.A. in Legal Studies and a B.S. in Society and Environment from UC Berkeley. Zoe studies the normative theory of environmental justice, within a law and society framework. For her master’s thesis, she is examining how activists–community members who advocate for a clean and safe environment–are conceiving of responsibility. She is conducting a content analysis, a historical analysis, and, over the summer of 2023, an embedded ethnography at two environmental justice organizations. Zoe is working to develop co-produced and historically-informed normative theory, to help activists shape policy and society towards their visions of possible worlds. After Yale, Zoe will pursue her J.D. at UCLA Law, as part of the David J. Epstein Program in Public Interest Law and Policy. She seeks to serve her communities in all her future work.