Tarah Heinzen is Food & Water Watch’s Legal Director. In this role, she directs FWW’s legal strategy and oversees a team of attorneys leading impact litigation and grassroots campaign support across the country to advance Food & Water Watch’s mission and campaigns, including its Ban Factory Farms campaign.

Prior to joining Food & Water Watch in 2015, Tarah spent five years as a staff attorney at the Environmental Integrity Project, leading programs focused on factory farm pollution and restoring the Chesapeake Bay.

Prior to law school, she worked as an organizer for the Sierra Club, working to build grassroots power to hold factory farms accountable for their pollution in Iowa. She graduated cum laude from Lewis & Clark Law School in 2009 with a certificate in environmental and natural resources law. She is based in Portland, Oregon.