Liz Jacob (she/her) serves as a Skadden Fellow with the Sugar Law Center for Social and Economic Justice and the Michigan Environmental Justice Coalition. Liz works as an environmental justice lawyer to advance environmental, climate, and energy justice alongside communities of color and low-income residents in Detroit, Michigan.

Liz is building 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 graduate of the College of William and Mary, where she was a Gates Millennium Scholar, and Yale Law School, where she studied law at the intersection of environmental justice and movement lawyering.

If you are in debt, the client is not at fault. The economy was stacked.

If you are being sued, the client is not at fault. Predatory lending and price gouging played a role.

If you owe taxes, the client is not at fault. The rich should pay.

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I have been a sporadic activist with various causes since the 1980s, and the Guild is a place to combine my desire to re-make our society with my legal skills.