Ethan Elkind, Neighbor

Ethan Elkind is the Climate Change Policy Associate with a joint appointment at the UC Berkeley School of Law and the UCLA School of Law. In this capacity, he serves as the key organizer and researcher for UCLA-UC Berkeley’s grant-funded climate change workshops. He taught at the UCLA law school’s Frank Wells Environmental Law Clinic and served as an environmental law research fellow. He has a background in the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA), climate change law, environmental justice, and other environmental law topics. In 2005, he co-founded The Nakwatsvewat Institute, Inc., a Native American nonprofit organization that provides alternative dispute resolution services and support for tribal governance, justice and educational institutions.