Karen Florini '79

Senior Attorney with Environmental Defense Fund

As a senior attorney with Environmental Defense Fund, Karen Florini focuses on enactment of federal climate-change legislation. She also oversees EDF's work on climate-change issues in Florida.

Ms Florini double-majored in biology and environmental policy at Oberlin and earned the JD degree from Harvard University Law School, where she was editor-in-chief of the Harvard Environmental Law Review. Ms. Florini clerked for Judge John Fullam of the U.S. District Court (PA) and then served in the U.S. Department of Justice's Land and Natural Resources Division for three years before joining Environmental Defense in 1987. She also serves as a trustee for the Reef Environmental Education Fund.