Patricia Jones

Patricia Jones is manager of UUSC’s Environmental Justice Program, which promotes the human right to water in Africa, the Americas, and Asia. Before joining UUSC, Jones was a researcher working with international donor agencies and governments on legal tools for resolving conflicts over transboundary water resources. She has published reports in her field of international water law.

Jones holds a PhD and master of law (LLM) degree in international water law from the Centre for Water Law, Policy, and Science at the University of Dundee (United Kingdom). She earned her law degree (JD) from the Washington College of Law, American University, working for its Center for Human Rights & Humanitarian Law. She worked for 18 years at El Centro de la Raza, a multiracial community-based organization in Seattle, Wash., focusing on development and social justice locally and nationally and U.S. foreign policy in Latin America.