Panel V - Climate Litigation

Daina Bray

Clinical Lecturer in Law

Yale Law School

Daina Bray is a Clinical Lecturer in Law at Yale Law School and a leading animal protection attorney. Since 2021, Bray has served as a Senior Litigation Fellow and Project Manager at the Law, Ethics, and Animals Program at Yale Law School, where she has overseen the Climate Change & Animal Agriculture Litigation Initiative. From 2014–2018, Bray was General Counsel at the International Fund for Animal Welfare. From 2019–2021, she served in the same capacity at Mercy For Animals, the world’s largest nonprofit organization dedicated to farm animal protection. At both organizations, Bray was responsible for matters of governance, litigation, and legal risk. She previously practiced law at White & Case LLP, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer US LLP, and Phelps Dunbar LLP. From 1998–1999, Bray completed a Fulbright Scholarship in affiliation with the University of the West Indies–Mona’s Institute for Sustainable Development and the Jamaica Environment Trust. She is a 2004 graduate of Stanford Law School, where she received Pro Bono distinction, and a 1998 graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she was a Morehead Scholar and member of Phi Beta Kappa.

Alexandra St. Pierre

Senior Attorney

Conservation Law Foundation

Alex St. Pierre is a Senior Attorney on the Strategic Litigation team. Prior to joining CLF, Alex was an Equal Justice Works Fellow and Staff Attorney at the Legal Aid Society of Palm Beach County, representing teens aging out of foster care and parents of children with disabilities. She then served as a law clerk to the Honorable Marcia G. Cooke of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida and later to the Honorable James E. Graves, Jr. of the U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

Alex earned a B.A., summa cum laude, from Sonoma State University and a J.D. from Harvard Law School. In her spare time, Alex enjoys running long distances (especially on trails), baking, and spending time with her family.

Maria Antonia Tigre

Global Climate Litigation Fellow

Sabin Center for Climate Change Law at Columbia Law School

Dr. Maria Antonia Tigre is the Global Climate Litigation fellow at the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law at Columbia Law School and an adjunct professor at the Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University. She serves as the deputy director at the Global Network of Human Rights and the Environment.

Thomas Poston

J.D. Candidate

Yale Law School

Thomas Poston is a second-year J.D. candidate at Yale Law School. In addition to his work with Yale’s Climate Change and Animal Agriculture Litigation Initiative, Thomas has researched and contributed to climate litigation efforts at the European Court of Human Rights and the Natural Resources Defense Council. Thomas is also a 2022-2023 Emerging Scholar Fellow with the Brooks Institute for Animal Rights Law & Policy and a student fellow with both the Law, Ethics, and Animals Program and the Center for Global Legal Challenges. Prior to law school, he studied international development, environmental degradation, and human and non-human animal exploitation as a Fulbright research fellow in Cambodia. A native of coastal North Carolina, Thomas received his B.A. summa cum laude from Wake Forest University.

Andrea Rogers

Senior Litigation Attorney

Our Children's Trust

Andrea Rodgers, Senior Litigation Attorney at Our Children’s Trust, has been successfully litigating in the climate space for over a decade, and practicing environmental and Indian law for over twenty years. Her work representing youth against the Washington Department of Ecology secured the nation’s first court order mandating a state to cap and regulate greenhouse gas emissions, prompting Seattle Met Magazine to name her as one of the month’s most interesting visionaries, locals and newsmakers, calling her work “a pro bono lesson in how to fight for your environmental future.” Andrea serves as co-counsel in Juliana v. United States, Held v. State of Montana, and Navahine F. v. Hawai`i Department of Transportation, and supports a number of other youth-led cases, including La Rose v. His Majesty the King in Canada. In 2022, Andrea led a petition for rulemaking effort in Florida filed by over 200 children that resulted in Chapter 5O-5: Renewable Energy – Florida’s most significant climate policy in over a decade. This rule sets renewable energy goals for Florida’s electric utilities at least 40% by 2030, 63% by 2035, 82% by 2040, and 100% by 2050. Andrea has given dozens of presentations at a variety of venues, including Aspen Ideas Health, and keynote addresses at the Continuing Legal Education Society of British Columbia, Tulane University Environmental Law and Policy Summit, the Washington State Council for the Social Studies, and the Miccosukee Indian Law Conference, among others. Andrea has published a number of articles, including most recently The Injustice of 1.5°C-2°C in the Virginia Environmental Law Journal. Prior to joining OCT, she clerked for the Honorable John C. Gemmill on the Arizona Court of Appeals and has served as an Honors Attorney for the U.S. Department of Transportation, In-House Legal Counsel for the Snoqualmie Indian Tribe, and Staff Attorney for the Western Environmental Law Center.