Hannah Perls
Lecturer on LawSpring 2025

Hannah Perls (she/ella) is a Senior Staff Attorney with the Harvard Environmental & Energy Law Program (EELP) where she supervises research on equitable disaster preparedness and response and federal environmental justice initiatives. She previously worked as a program assistant and development director for Cristosal, a human rights non-profit based in El Salvador that provides legal and humanitarian assistance to families internally displaced by violence. Hannah also worked as geochemist specializing in remediating coastal and riverine Superfund sites. She received her J.D. from Harvard Law School and her B.A. with honors in environmental science and sustainable development from Columbia University.
Hannah serves on the Environmental Justice Legal Advisory Board for Alternatives for Community and Environment (ACE) in Roxbury, MA, and as the law & policy co-chair for the Climigration Network.