Ann Jaworski

Ann Jaworski is a staff attorney at ELPC, joining in 2018. Her advocacy has included commenting on proposed rulemakings, litigating in federal and state courts, and participating in state utility regulation proceedings. She has previously worked in Northwestern University’s Office for Sponsored Research. As a law student, Ann interned for NRDC and for the U.S. Department of Justice’s Environment and Natural Resources Division. She was also a research assistant for two law professors and a Notes editor for N.Y.U. Law Review. Following law school, she clerked for Judges Richard Posner and Frank Easterbrook on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. Ann is passionate about animal rights and finding ways to make food systems and agriculture more sustainable. In her spare time, she enjoys knitting, reading fantasy novels, going to concerts, and vegetarian cooking.

WHAT’S A PLACE YOU LOVE IN THE MIDWEST?

The greatest city in the world, my hometown of Chicago. There’s nothing like going for a long run on the lakefront path, the skyline of architectural gems rising to the clouds on one side and the inland sea that is Lake Michigan stretching to the horizon on the other.

WHAT DRIVES YOU TO DO THIS WORK?

Environmental law is the ultimate public interest cause. I get to fight for people, plants, animals, and the planet. And getting to sue governments and corporations when they endanger our ecosystem is pretty punk rock.