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Elizabeth Manning
Public Affairs and Communications Strategist
emanning@earthjustice.org
Bar Admissions
AK, NY
Erik Grafe is the Deputy Managing Attorney of Earthjustice’s Alaska office. Erik joined Earthjustice as a staff attorney in September 2007.
Prior to joining Earthjustice, Erik worked as an associate in the New York and Moscow offices of Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton, a large international law firm, and as a staff attorney for MFY Legal Services, a non-profit provider of legal services to low-income New Yorkers. In summer 2006, he served as a law clerk for the Hon. Timothy M. Burgess of the U.S. District Court for the District of Alaska.
Erik received a B.A. in English and Environmental Studies from Yale College in 1996, a J.D. from the University of Virginia School of Law in 2000, and an LL.M. in Environmental and Natural Resources Law from Lewis and Clark Law School in 2007. He is admitted to practice in Alaska and New York.