Jennifer Barnette

Jennifer Barnette is a Lecturer and attorney at Cooley, where she leads the firm's Social Impact practice. Her work focuses on legal challenges in corporate governance, impact finance, and social enterprise law, with expertise in advising benefit corporations, Certified B Corps, nonprofit organizations, and their investors.

Education:

• J.D., UC Berkeley School of Law

She is actively involved in impact investing and social enterprise initiatives through memberships in the

• Impact Investing Legal Working Group
• Echoing Green’s Legal Advisory Group

and as an advisor to organizations like Carbon180 and OneWorld Training.

Her professional network includes the Center for Justice and Accountability’s Professional Network for Human Rights, highlighting her engagement with human rights issues.