Executive Director, Environmental Justice Fund

Lisa Chamberlain is an activist, attorney and academic with more than 12 years of experience working in the social justice sector in South Africa. Prior to joining the Environmental Justice Fund, she was Deputy and Acting Director of the Centre for Applied Legal Studies, a public interest law clinic at the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits). She is a Visiting Senior Lecturer in the Wits Law School and a Research Associate at the Southern Centre for Inequality Studies. She has worked in private practice as an attorney and clerked at the Constitutional Court of South Africa. She has a BA LLB (Wits) and an LLM (University of Michigan). Lisa is passionate about environmental justice, and how it intersects with gender equality. She has particular experience working with communities affected by mining in South Africa. Lisa is interested in supporting activism, which enhances well-being and is currently researching resilience-building amongst human rights defenders in South Africa.