AMIR: Rachel Zwillinger ’09, Public Interest Environmental Lawyer
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Come hear from alumna Rachel Zillinger, an environmental policy advisor with Defenders of Wildlife.
As the Water Policy Advisor for Defenders’ California Program, Rachel Zwillinger (JD ’09, MS ’09) focuses on protecting the fish and wildlife that depend upon California’s waterways and wetlands. Among other priorities, she works to ensure that wetlands in the Central Valley receive sufficient water to support birds as they migrate along the Pacific Flyway, and strives to protect endangered salmon and other native species that depend upon the San Francisco Bay-Delta and upstream habitats.
Before joining Defenders of Wildlife, Rachel worked for three years as a litigation fellow for Altshuler Berzon LLP and the Natural Resources Defense Council. Prior to her fellowship, Rachel served as a law clerk to Judge John T. Noonan of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, and Judge Marilyn Huff of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California.