Jill Habig is the Founder and CEO of Public Rights Project (PRP), a national legal nonprofit dedicated to helping local government officials use their considerable–but often untapped or misused–power to advance civil rights and democracy. Jill has been named an Ashoka Fellow, Open Society Foundations Leadership in Government Fellow, and Draper Richards Kaplan Social Entrepreneur for her work building PRP. Previously, Jill served as Special Counsel to Kamala Harris in the California Department of Justice, advising the Attorney General on key legal and policy initiatives including civil rights, healthcare, and education. In 2015, she led the creation and launch of the Attorney General’s Bureau of Children’s Justice and managed its work. Jill began her legal career in the San Francisco City Attorney’s Office working on the landmark trial challenging Proposition 8 to establish marriage equality. She was previously a Lecturer at Yale Law School and is currently a Lecturer at Berkeley Law.
Global Witness investigates and exposes environmental and human rights abuses in the oil, gas, mining, and timber sectors, and tracks
For triple-bottom-line businesses, there are no guarantees that responsible practices will continue after the sale of the company. ‘B corp‘,
Fundación Avina (Avina Foundation) supports collaborative processes for sustainable development and systemic change focusing on being orchestrators of colloboration on
Forbidden Stories is a network of journalists who continue to pursue and publish the work of other journalists who face
Emergination Africa empowers learners and educators to turn their passion for entrepreneurship into valuable business ventures through training and accelerator
