There, Leslie’s priority projects include working to protect the public and environment from coal ash contamination resulting from unlined pits throughout North Carolina and the Southeast and the North Carolina Garden Highway project, which the North Carolina Department of Transportation finally abandoned in late 2016. Prior to joining SELC, Leslie attended Duke University and Harvard Law School where she was a member of the Harvard Law Review. Following law school Leslie clerked at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit.