As a Staff Attorney with FarmSTAND, Holly litigates cases to increase transparency in the food system and challenge industrial agricultural practices that harm people, animals, and the environment. She is passionate about using her legal work to support power building in communities impacted by industrial animal agriculture.
Prior to joining FarmSTAND, Holly was a litigator at Animal Legal Defense Fund, where she focused on improving government oversight of industrial animal agriculture. Before that she was an environmental and land use attorney for the State of California and for an international law firm. She began her legal career as a clerk for Judge Marilyn L. Huff of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California. Holly graduated from the University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law and has a B.S. in Agribusiness Economics and Management from the University of Arizona.
Holly lives in Seattle, Washington and enjoys exploring nature with her family, including rescue dog Billy.
Amal Bouhabib is a Senior Staff Attorney at FarmSTAND, after nearly a decade representing farmworkers throughout the Deep South as an attorney, and later director of, Southern Migrant Legal Services located in Nashville, Tenn. At FarmSTAND, Amal continues to pursue cases that highlight and seek justice for the frontline food workers that feed us, and exploring news ways to create a humane, fair, and accessible food system for all communities.
Prior to her farmworker career, Amal was a litigator at an international law firm in New York, where she was part of the trial team that won a $14 million verdict on behalf of workers from India against a Mississippi corporation, the largest-ever jury verdict in a labor trafficking case. Before going to law school, Amal worked as a journalist in Beirut, Lebanon and as a legal assistant for the Brennan Center for Justice in New York. Amal earned her J.D. from Fordham University School of Law and holds a Master’s Degree in Journalism and Middle East Studies from New York University, and a B.A. in Theology from Georgetown University.
In her (limited) spare time, Amal enjoys the wild nature of Nashville, singing with her musician husband, attending her son's soccer games, and cuddling with their moody cat Bear.