Environmental Policy & Law

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Kelly McClure

2019 Fellow
Kelly McClure (she/her/hers) is an incoming Heyman Public Interest Fellow at the White House, where she will serve as a Special Assistant within the Executive Office of the President. In May of 2021, Kelly will receive her Juris Doctor...
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Lourdes Vera

2019 Fellow
Lourdes Vera is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology and Department of Environment and Sustainability at UB. As an environmental sociologist and civic scientist, she works with communities living near oil and gas...
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Brittani Orona

2019 Fellow
Dr. Brittani R. Orona is a Hupa environmental, public humanities scholar and an Assistant Professor of Native American Studies at University of California, Davis. Prior to joining Davis, she was an UC President's and Andrew W. Mellon...
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Isa Gaillard

2019 Fellow
Isa Gaillard is a Senior Planner at Horizon 54 where he works at the intersection of urban planning, capacity building, and environmental justice.
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Frances Roberts-Gregory

2019 Fellow
Dr. Frances Roberts-Gregory is a feminist political ecologist and environmental anthropologist. Her activist scholarship interrogates how Gulf Coast Black and Indigenous women within Louisiana's river and bayou parishes navigate...
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Adler publishes second report "U.S. Climate Change Litigation in the Age of Trump: Year Two"

Fellow Dena Adler, a Postdoctoral Research Scholar at Columbia Law School and a Climate Law Fellow at the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law, follows up her Year One report on the Trump administration with Year Two.
June 9, 2019
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Recovery on the shoreline: the Birds are BACK

Along the shores of Long Island Sound in Connecticut, scientists are seeing decades of environmental improvements show how spring can once again become cacophonous with birds and habitats can rebound from loss. Fellow Leigh Shemitz shares her view.
June 6, 2019
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Xantha Bruso: Developing autonomous vehicle policy strategies to advance safety while enabling innovation

As the policy manager for autonomous vehicle policy at AAA Northern California, Nevada and Utah, Fellow Xantha Bruso is developing and implementing AAA’s AV policy strategy to advance AV safety while enabling innovation. She also supports strategic initiatives to accelerate AV deployment and foster mobility solutions.
May 21, 2019
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Derek Lemoine: Predicting future behavior despite a relative scarcity of data

Fellow Derek Lemoine is an Associate Professor of Economics at The University of Arizona, where his research combines economic theory and computational methods to better understand the dynamics of environmental policy and of energy systems.
May 21, 2019
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Garrett Fitzgerald: Helping local governments advance their work in sustainability

Fellow Garrett Fitzgerald is the Strategic Collaboration Director at the Urban Sustainability Directors Network (USDN), where he helps the organization’s local government members advance their work in sustainability.
May 21, 2019