Elsie Mares

Elsie Mares is a 2L at Yale Law School. Originally from California’s Central Valley, Elsie’s professional roots are in immigration justice and labor organizing. Her early experiences working with migrant agricultural workers cultivated a broader interest in the international frameworks that underpin global migration management. This led her to pursue a Herbert Scoville Peace Fellowship in Washington, DC, where she worked as a Policy and Programs Associate with Peace Direct, an international peacebuilding organization. At Peace Direct, she supported research and advocacy around the intersection of peace and migration and oversaw a Local Action Fund which connected grassroots peacebuilders to resources and micro-grants. 

Elsie holds a Master of Public Policy at McGill University's Max Bell School where she was a Research Fellow with McGill University’s Centre for International Peace and Security Studies. She completed her undergraduate degree in Political Science at Loyola Marymount University where she interned with EMILY’s List, the UK Parliament, and worked with the United Farmworkers Foundation. At Yale, she is involved with the Lowenstein Human Rights Clinic, serves as a Features Editor for the Yale Journal of International Law, and is on the board for La Sociedad de Latine Law Students.