Environmental Policy & Law

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Margaret Tallmadge

2019 Fellow
Maggie Tallmadge is the Business Development Manager at Ranger Power, a utility-scale solar and battery storage development company, headquartered in Chicago, IL. Prior to joining Ranger, Maggie worked at the Coalition of Communities of...
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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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Isa Gaillard

2019 Fellow
City planner with extensive experience overseeing capacity building, sustainable transportation, and environmental justice projects.
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Melissa Cronin

2019 Fellow
Melissa Cronin is a Smith Conservation Research Fellow and postdoctoral researcher hosted by the Coasts and Commons Co-Laboratory at Duke University. She is an interdisciplinary marine conservation scientist and studies the impacts of industrial fishing on ecosystems, threatened species, and human communities. She is co-founder of the conservation organization Mobula Conservation (www.mobulaconservation.org) and co-founder and CEO of FieldFutures (www.fieldfutures.org).
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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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Brittani Orona

2019 Fellow
Brittani R. Orona is an enrolled member of the Hoopa Valley Tribe and received her Ph.D. in Native American Studies with a Designated Emphasis in Human Rights at UC Davis in Spring 2022. She is currently an Assistant Professor of American...
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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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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