Elizabeth Isaacs is a member of SJP’s Advisory Group. Elizabeth is committed to transforming our societal response to harm and reimagining how to better promote healing and connection. She is an Appellate Attorney at the Office of Indigent Legal Services (ILS), where she supports post-conviction defenders across New York State with training and technical assistance on issues relating to long-term sentences for survivors of domestic violence. From 2021-2023, Elizabeth co-taught the Criminal Defense Clinic and Advocacy Clinic at Brooklyn Law School with Kate Mogulescu, working with criminalized survivors on resentencing applications under the Domestic Violence Survivors Justice Act.

As a public defender at the Criminal Appeals Bureau at the Legal Aid Society, Elizabeth represented incarcerated people in a wide array of litigation, including direct appeals, C.P.L. 440 motions, parole advocacy, risk adjudication hearings under the Sex Offender Registration Act, and state habeas corpus petitions. During the COVID-19 pandemic, Elizabeth co-created the COVID Emergency Release Project, a statewide effort to free medically vulnerable people from New York State prisons through litigation and public awareness campaigns aimed at amplifying the voices of at-risk people behind bars.

Eizabeth also served as a law clerk to the Honorable Jonathan Lippman on the New York State Court of Appeals. Elizabeth received her J.D. from the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law and her B.A. from Wesleyan University.