César Rodríguez-Garavito is the Founding Director of Earth Rights Advocacy at NYU School of Law. He is also a Professor of Clinical Law and Chair and Faculty Director of the Center for Human Rights and Global Justice at NYU School of Law as well as a human rights and environmental justice scholar and practitioner whose interests focus on global governance, climate change, socio-economic rights, business and human rights, and the human rights movement. César additionally serves as the Editor-in-Chief of Open Global Rights and has been a strategy advisor to leading international and domestic human rights organizations in different parts of the world.

Melina De Bona is an Attorney at Earth Rights Advocacy and Adjunct Professor for the Earth Rights Advocacy Clinic at NYU Law School. She leads the R2HE Project and on the nexus between human rights and climate change. She holds a J.D. from New York University School of Law and a B.A. in International Studies from the University of Chicago. Prior to joining ERA, she spent a year specializing in international arbitration, white-collar crime investigations, and sustainability.

Emma Crowe is a third-year J.D. Candidate at NYU Law. While in law school, she received an ILHR Fellowship and previously worked as a Research Assistant for the Climate Law Accelerator (CLX) and as a Human Rights Scholar at the Center for Human Rights and Global Justice. She has participated in the Future of Human Rights and Earth Rights Advocacy (ERA) Clinics, through which she supports the MOTH Project, and has worked on various programs related to rights of nature, indigenous rights, human rights in the domestic U.S., and climate litigation. Before pursuing her J.D., Emma spent two years as an Experience Strategist, writer, and inclusive human-centered design advocate at PwC’s Experience Center. She holds a B.A. in Philosophy and English from Amherst College.

Anne Pfeifenberger is a current J.D. Candidate at NYU Law. She holds a B.A. in Political Science and Environmental Studies from Skidmore College, focused on international environmental politics and policy. As an undergraduate, Anne completed fieldwork on comparative environmental politics and policy across Vietnam, Morocco, and Bolivia. At NYU Law, she was an ILHR Fellowship recipient, and supported the National Foundation for India in New Delhi with non-profit and social justice research. She has worked on various projects related to indigenous rights, biodiversity, rights of nature, and crimes against humanity with Brazilian partners through the ERA and Future of Human Rights Clinics.

Alice Viera is a third-year JD student at New York University School of Law. She is a Research Assistant for Earth Rights Advocacy. Before law school, she received a Bachelor of Arts in English from Stanford University. Her primary interests are climate migration, corporate accountability, and the human rights impacts of technology.

Lane Eisenmann is a 2023 graduate of NYU School of Law. She has a B.A. in International Ethics and Social Justice from Boston College. Immediately prior to attending NYU, Lane worked in social services in Washington D.C. Lane is interested in using her law degree to work at the intersection of environmental and human rights. She is particularly interested in indigenous and traditional land rights in the Americas. While at NYU, Lane was thrilled to work on this project as a research assistant at the Earth Rights Advocacy (ERA-NYU) for three semesters.

Maximilian Strobel studied law at Humboldt Universität in Berlin, Germany with a focus on public and environmental law. He has worked on high profile, strategic environmental – especially animal rights – litigation as a research assistant in different law firms in Germany. Max has a particular interest in domestic climate protection efforts and litigation with regard to corporate accountability . In 2023, he graduated from NYU with an LL.M. in international Legal Studies. During his year at NYU, he worked as a Human Rights Scholar for the Center of Human Rights and Global Justice.

Diana Roldan McGinley studied law at the Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana in Medellín, Colombia, and attended the Academy on Human Rights and Humanitarian Law at American University. In Colombia, she engaged in strategic litigation before domestic tribunals and the Inter-American system, as well as in commercial litigation. In the United States, she has worked in the fields of women’s rights, land protection, indigenous rights, and pro bono, primarily on projects related to Latin America. In 2022, she completed her LL.M. in International Legal Studies from NYU, where she focused her studies on the intersection of business and human rights and was awarded the International Law and Human Rights Fellowship to work at the European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights. There, she worked with the Business and Human Rights team on projects related to climate and environmental justice. Currently, she works as a research scholar with Earth Rights Advocacy.

Nathalia Dutra is a Legal Fellow at Earth Rights Advocacy. Nathalia Dutra is a Legal Fellow at the Earth Rights Advocacy (ERA-NYU). She graduated with a Bachelor of Laws from the Fundação Getulio Vargas (FGV School of Law) in São Paulo, Brazil, and holds an LL.M in European and International Human Rights Law from Leiden University, in the Netherlands. She works on issues related to racial and climate justice, with a focus on Global South experiences, particularly in the Brazilian Amazon. Prior to joining ERA, Nathalia worked at a Brazilian law firm on compliance issues and also worked as a research fellow at the Racial Justice and Law Research Center (FGV School of Law) and the Climate Institute and Society (iCS) in Brazil.