Jennifer Cassel

Jennifer Cassel is a senior attorney with the Coal Program. She is based in Chicago.

Prior to joining Earthjustice, Jenny worked as a staff attorney for the Environmental Law & Policy Center in Chicago, where she brought enforcement suits and permit challenges against numerous coal-fired power plants and co-led negotiations of a comprehensive, protective fracking law in Illinois.

Jenny is a graduate of Northwestern University School of Law and of Vassar College. She also has a Masters of Science in Social Anthropology from Universidad Autónoma de Yucatán, Mexico, where she traveled throughout the Mexican state of Yucatán conducting field research for her thesis on utopian aspects of community theatre in Mayan villages.

She enjoys attending outdoor concerts, building sandcastles, and making up crazy dances with her two small sons.