Jill Soffiyah Elijah is an American lawyer, author and social justice activist.
Elijah holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Cornell University and a Juris Doctor degree from the Wayne State University Law School in Detroit, Michigan.
[2] She was a clinical faculty member and the director of the Criminal Justice Institute at Harvard University.
[4] Elijah was the first black director of the Correctional Association of New York, a position she held for five years.
[5] At the Correctional Association, she worked with the Marshall Project to prosecute several guards Attica Prison for brutality against inmates.