Emily Enderle

Environmental Health Advocate, Earthjustice
eenderle@earthjustice.org

Emily Enderle is the environmental health advocate in the Washington D.C. office of Earthjustice. Emily specializes in environmental health issues, working to uphold and strengthen environmental statutes by advancing positions that protect humans from unhealthy exposure to dangerous environmental contaminants found in household products, pesticides, air emissions and solid waste.

Prior to working at Earthjustice, Emily was the Associate Director of Admissions and Admissions Diversity Coordinator at the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies where she helped increase diversity and inclusivity at Yale. She is the author of the edited volume Diversity and the Future of the U.S. Environmental Movement, which showcases the work of more than 15 environmental leaders.

Emily has considerable domestic and international experience. She has worked with London’s municipal fuel poverty eradication program “Warm Zone,” the Bank Information Center in New Delhi and as a corporate environmental consultant in the San Francisco office of Kearns & West. She is Yale College fellow and serves on the board of the Center for Diversity and the Environment and the environmental micro-philanthropic organization, In Our Backyards (ioby). Emily is also a Environmental Leadership Program Senior Fellow and has lectured on environmental policy at Cornell University and Mount Holyoke.

Emily is one of nine U.S. fellows to be selected in 2010 for the U.S.-China Environmental Justice Exchange Fellowship funded by the U.S. Department of State. She holds a Masters of Environmental Management from Yale University and graduated with high honors in environmental studies from Oberlin College.