Isabel Gensler is a J.D. candidate at Yale Law School, where she’s served as co-president of the American Constitution Society, vice president of the National Security Group, Herbert J. Hansell Student Fellow of the Center for Global Legal Challenges, and policy and features editor of the Yale Law & Policy Review. Through clinical work, Isabel has represented veterans harmed by toxic exposures and defended rule of law principles and the separation of powers. After graduation, she will clerk for the U.S. District Court of the Central District of California and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.

During law school, Isabel summered at the White House National Economic Council and at the State Department Office of the Legal Adviser. Before law school, Isabel was a case writer at an immigration law firm in San Diego, California, and volunteered with the Afghan Evacuation Coalition. Earlier, Isabel was an analyst at Barclays Investment Bank in New York City. She graduated magna cum laude from Brown University in 2019 with a B.A. in political science, earning departmental honors for work on the comparative politics of former Soviet states.