Jaclyn Leeds is currently a second year law student at Lewis and Clark Law School. She first became interested in animal law while interning at Animals Asia Foundation in Hong Kong during two summers away from Wellesley College, and she moved from New Hampshire to Portland for Lewis & Clark’s animal law program. In her first year of law school she became the Student Conference Coordinator for SALDF and a member of Animal Law, the animal law journal at Lewis and Clark. She is now the 2011-2012 Outreach Chair for SALDF and the Symposium Coordinator for Animal Law.

Outside of school, Jaclyn volunteers with the Portland Animal Welfare Team, providing veterinary care and supplies to companion animals of low-income individuals, and keeps busy taking her rescued pup Ebony to scentwork classes. She will begin clerking for the Animal Legal Defense Fund’s litigation program this fall.