Jay Monteverde
Co-Founder, Board President
Jay (he/him) has advocated for human rights and social justice through grassroots organizing and legal and policy advocacy for 20 years, focused largely on environmental justice, immigrant rights, and protection of civil liberties. He has worked with grassroots advocates and public interest lawyers around the world to promote community legal empowerment, environmental public participation, government transparency, and access to justice. He is the US Environmental Justice Program Director at Namati, and has previously been at the American Bar Association Rule of Law Initiative, Our Children's Trust, the National Immigrant Justice Center, and various grassroots groups and campaigns. He also previously handled environmental justice and other public interest matters as an Assistant Attorney General in Illinois. Jay was born and raised in the Chicago area.