Founder and PresidentPublic Rights Project
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.