Candice Youngblood: fighting for the right to breathe
Green 2.0 recently featured a Q&A with Candice Youngblood on their blog highlighting environmental leaders. Green 2.0 is a nonprofit organization working to ensure that the environmental movement collaborates effectively and equitably to support all communities. Recent issues of their blog lift up environmental leaders’ stories.
“Candice Youngblood is a passionate environmental justice lawyer and advocate. In 2020, she founded Youth on Root, a California-based nonprofit project whose mission is to center low-income youth and youth of color as change agents in their communities by providing tools for learning from each other and opportunities to use their unique power to promote environmental justice. Candice currently practices law at Earthjustice, where she focuses on issues at the intersection of clean transportation and racial justice.”
In the Q&A with Candice’s, Fighting for the Right to Breathe, she answers the following questions:
- How does your background shape the way you represent community voices in the courtroom?
- There are many barriers to accessing a legal education, especially for underrepresented communities. How did you navigate these and who helped you along the way?
- You founded Youth on Root in 2020, which equips low-income youth of colour with the tools to become environmental justice advocates. What drove you to create this organization?
- Throughout your career, you continue to create opportunities and service to your communities. How can we take small steps to drive change in our own communities?
To anyone who dreams of becoming an environmental lawyer, what message do you have for them?
