Andrea has been working with Our Children’s Trust since 2010 and joined the staff in 2017, representing youth in constitutional climate change cases against governments, contributing to organizational legal strategy and case development. She supervises Our Children’s Trust’s government affairs attorney and climate scientist.
Andrea is counsel of record in Juliana v. United States, Genesis v. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Held v. State of Montana, Navahine v. Hawaiʻi Dept of Transportation, and is actively developing several state cases. In addition to advancing our federal and domestic cases, Andrea supports Canada’s first youth-led climate case that received a favorable ruling before the Federal Court of Appeals, La Rose v. His Majesty the King, putting the youth plaintiffs on the path to trial. Her litigation on behalf of youth in Washington State secured the nation’s first court order mandating an agency to cap and regulate carbon dioxide emissions and in Navahine v. Hawaiʻi Dept of Transportation, she secured a landmark climate settlement with Hawaiʻi Governor Green and HDOT Director Sniffen to decarbonize Hawaiʻi’s transportation sector no later than 2024.
Prior to joining Our Children’s Trust, she was an honors attorney for the U.S. Department of Transportation, in-house legal counsel for Snoqualmie Indian Tribe, staff attorney for Western Environmental Law Center, and clerked for Hon. John C. Gemmill on Arizona Court of Appeals. Andrea received her JD from Arizona State University and BA from University of California, Santa Barbara.
