Author: Jennifer Li

Jennifer Li is the founding co-director of the Center for Community Health Innovation at Georgetown Law’s O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law. Li began her legal career in criminal defense and international human rights law. Her current research and practice areas focus on the intersections of community economic development, housing, worker rights and climate adaptation. Her publications include explorations of centering communities in climate planning and innovations in clinical teaching pedagogy.

Trump’s Speech to Congress Shows the Working Class Is on Their Own 

, and

President Trump’s first seven weeks back in office have been spent abandoning the American people—tearing apart vital programs, withholding funds that save lives and purging the federal workforce. Last Tuesday, he addressed a joint session of Congress for the first time in his second term. Throughout the speech, he boasted about abandoning international agreements, expediting environmental deregulation and gutting federal resources.