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Liz Jacob named 2023 Skadden Fellow at Sugar Law Center

Fellow(s): Liz Jacob
Topic(s): Environmental Policy & Law

The Skadden Law Firm has awarded Liz Jacob a 2023 Skadden Fellowship, located at the Sugar Law Center for Social and Economic Justice. 

Launched in 1988 to commemorate our 40th anniversary, the Skadden Foundation has funded more than 960 public interest fellowships to date. 

Jacob will be providing direct legal service for clients experiencing energy insecurity, including utility debt and power shutoffs, as well as offering legal support for community-led policy change challenging inequitable energy burdens.

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Liz Jacob

Liz Jacob

2022 Fellow
Liz Jacob (she/her) is working to build a practice of community-based lawyering alongside movements for a just transition. Liz is dedicating her life to working in community to collectively dream and build a transformative new world grounded in mutual aid, justice, and equity so that all people and the planet can thrive. Liz is a recent graduate of Yale Law School and will be serving as a Skadden fellow with the Sugar Law Center for Social and Economic Justice and the Michigan Environmental Justice Coalition, where she will serve as an environmental justice lawyer to advance environmental, climate, and energy justice alongside communities of color and low-income residents in Detroit, Michigan.

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