Social Justice Advocacy Careers - Doing Good With A Law Degree

Abby tells Marc Luber of JD Careers Out There how her law degree and legal skills have played an instrumental role in her social justice career. Abby is a co-founder of the California Women's Law Center, which has fought to change law and policy on behalf of the civil rights of women and girls. Today Abby Leibman is President & CEO of MAZON: A Jewish Response To Hunger, a non-profit organization based in LA, dedicated to preventing and alleviating hunger among people of all faiths and backgrounds.

Whether you're in law school or wondering what to do with a law degree, you may want to check out social justice advocacy paths. In the full interview at JDCOT, Abby tells us how to build a path doing social justice work and explains a typical day, what skills and personality types best fit this path, and how to succeed.