Alisha Eastep

Public Interest Lawyer, Activist, Researcher, Writer, Educator

Education

School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London, UK Masters of Law; Law, Globalisation and Development, Graduated December 2020

University of California, Hastings College of the Law, San Francisco, CA Juris Doctor – CA State Bar # 342214 Graduated May 2021

University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA Bachelor of Arts; Rhetoric and Anthropology, Graduated Dec. 2010 magna cum laude

Moots

JAMS Negotiation Competition 1st Place Team London, U.K. (Fall 2020)

Wilmer Hale Arbitration Moot Top Team London, U.K. (Fall 2020)

International Human Rights Law ADR 7th Place Mediation Athens, Greece Moot (Spring 2020)

Work Experience

U.C. Hastings, San Francisco, CA, Research Assistant and Teaching Assistant, Fall 2018 – Spring 2019

Center for Race, Poverty, and the Environment, Oakland, CA, Law Clerk, Summer 2018

Research Institute for Humanity and Nature, Kyoto, Japan & Berkeley, CA, Research Assistant, March 2014-August 2017

Anthropology Department, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, Course Reader | Writer-Editor III, August 2012-August 2017

VSC Public Relations, San Francisco, CA, Operations Manager, December 2010-August 2012

COMMUNITY SERVICE

Slow Food San Francisco – Board Member/Treasurer (2016-2019); SF Tenants’ Union; Save the Bay; Union of Concerned Scientists; Roteract SF Member (2011-13)

Writing/Editing

SOAS Law Journal, Senior Editor; (Spring 2020).

Hastings Environmental Law Journal, Note Editor, (2019).

The Handbook of East and Southeast Asian Archaeology (2018).

“Talking to your students about the second presidential debate.” Head Royce News. Oct. 2016

Book Review, Cultural Analysis Journal, “Wonder Women: Feminisms and Superheroes” by Lillian Anderson, August 2012.

U.C. Berkeley Honors Thesis, “Social Networks and Identity Politics.” December 2010