Jennifer Bass is an attorney working at the intersection of animal law, environmental advocacy, and nonprofit formation — licensed in Washington (WSBA 63287) and admitted to practice in California.
Jennifer's path to the law began far from a courtroom. After earning a B.A. in Stage Management from London's Guildhall School of Music and Drama, she spent years producing live performance — including a stint as Production Manager at The Music Center / LA Opera, where she ran technical departments of up to 100 stagehands and oversaw budgets of $750,000 per show.
That operational training shaped how she practices today. She earned her MBA in Leadership from Western Governors University, her J.D. with an Animal Law Concentration from Vermont Law and Graduate School, and a Masters of Animal Law from Lewis & Clark as a Brooks Fellow. Along the way she served as Symposium Editor of the Vermont Journal of Environmental Law and as a Schweitzer Fellow.
Today her work spans nonprofit leadership as Executive Director of Global Ecosystem Preservation and international policy through the IUCN World Commission on Environmental Law's Nature-Based Solutions Cluster. She helps mission-driven founders build the durable legal structures their work requires — from formation and governance through advocacy and litigation.