Noah grew up in the foothills of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains in Santa Fe, New Mexico. He spent last summer at Shute, Mihaly and Weinberger, a public interest law firm in San Francisco. He spent his first summer in law school at NRDC's Climate Center in Washington, D.C. as a MAP Fellow. That summer he also worked with the NRDC International Program to develop an ongoing energy advocacy program in Chile. Noah has been enrolled with the Mills Environmental Law Clinic for four semesters. He was co-director for the Stanford International Law Journal and Stanford Environmental Law Journal Symposium on climate change litigation in February 2007. He was a research assistant for David Victor and Tom Heller, studying the relationship of oil to politics in Venezuela. He also worked as a teaching assistant for Robert McGinn for Ethics and Public Policy in the Stanford Science, Technology and Society program. Prior to law school, Noah worked with Mass Energy Consumers alliance developing a renewable energy certificate market.