Leslie Zellers, JD

Leslie Zellers, JD, is an attorney with more than 20 years of experience in public health law and policy for nonprofit and government organizations. Leslie serves as Legal Team Co-Lead with LSSC, where she supports partners' efforts to fight abusive preemption through collaboration and legal technical assistance, including legislative tracking and legal research and writing. In addition to her work to counter abusive preemption, Leslie works to advance public health and wellbeing through legal and policy advocacy in areas such as defending public health authority, tobacco control, cannabis regulation, and disaggregation of public health data. Leslie holds a BA from University of California at Berkeley, and a JD from UC Hastings College of the Law.