Akif joined the Harvard Food Law and Policy Clinic (FLPC) in August 2024 as a Clinical Fellow. Akif is most passionate about legal and policy work focused on waste reduction, resource circularity, and environmental, social, and economic sustainability. His current portfolio at FLPC focuses on bolstering collaborative strategies to mitigate food waste both domestically and internationally.
Akif received his J.D. from UCLA School of Law in 2024, with specializations in Environmental Law and International and Comparative Law. During law school, Akif worked as a summer intern at the UCLA Emmett Institute on Climate Change & the Environment, as a summer intern at the California Air Resources Board, as a litigation intern at the Natural Resources Defense Council, as an intern at the Center for International Environmental Law, as an extern at Our Children’s Trust, as an extern at the California Department of Justice in the Antitrust Law Section, and as a research assistant for both the UCLA Promise Institute for Human Rights and the UCLA Resnick Center for Food Law & Policy. He received his B.A. in Comparative Literature and B.S. in Psychology from the University of California, Irvine in 2021.
