Alma Lowry

Alma Lowry is currently the Environmental Justice Staff Attorney at the National Lawyers Guild/Maurice and Jane Sugar Law Center for Economic and Social Justice (the Guild Law Center or the GLC) in Detroit, Michigan. In this position, she provides technical assistance and advice, community education and training materials, and direct representation to community groups. in the Detroit area and around the country that are faced with potential environmental hazards.

Between 1996 and 1998, Alma was a Graduate Fellow at the Institute for Public Representation, a public interest law clinic at the Georgetown Law School, where she both supervised students and represented community and local environmental groups on environmental and environmental justice issues in the District of Columbia. Alma subsequently clerked for Chief Judge Richard A. Enslen in the United States District Court for the Western District of Michigan and spent a year as a staff attorney at Prison Legal Services of Michigan. After completing her undergraduate degree, she spent two years as a Peace Corps Volunteer, teaching high school math in Togo, West Africa.

Alma received her J.D. cum laude from the University of Michigan in 1995 and her M.S. in environmental policy from the University of Michigan's School of Natural Resources and Environment in 1996. During law school, Alma was active in the Environmental Law Society, served on the editorial board of the Journal of Law Reform and was admitted to the Order of the Coif. In 1998, she received her L.L.M. in advocacy from Georgetown Law School.