Juliana speaks with lawyer Alisa White about how cities can collaborate with animals to create thriving environments for all.
Conversations With Animals is a monthly conversation hosted by Juliana examining our interconnection with animal lives. Subscribe here: animal.julianaroth.com
Alisa White is a Legal Fellow at the Guarini Center. Alisa’s research focuses on climate justice, state and local environmental law, and land use policy. Alisa received a BA in Environmental Studies and Economics from Dartmouth College, an MESc from Yale School of the Environment, and a JD from Yale Law School. During law school, she was a law clerk at Earthjustice, Environmental Defense Fund, Our Children’s Trust, and Shute, Mihaly & Weinberger. She also participated in the Rule of Law and Environmental Protection Clinics at Yale and co-founded Law Students for Climate Accountability. Her master’s thesis research focused on land management collaborations between Indigenous peoples and land trusts in the Northeastern United States and central Chile. Prior to graduate school, Alisa researched community-based forest management in Oaxaca, Mexico and worked as an environmental consultant at Industrial Economics, Inc.
Full report: https://guarinicenter.org/document/wild-animal-welfare-in-local-policies-on-land-use-and-the-built-environment/
Highlights document: https://guarinicenter.org/document/wild-animal-welfare-in-local-policies-on-land-use-and-the-built-environment-highlights/
Guarini Center: https://guarinicenter.org/
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Juliana is a writer, professor, filmmaker, and performer. She formerly lived as a volunteer on an organic farm in Maine, out of a backpack in the wilderness of Utah’s La Sal Mountains, and worked for the Ecology Center. Her writing appears in The Breakwater Review, Irish Pages, Los Angeles Review of Books as well as being produced as independent films that she directs. Her web series, The University, was nominated by the International Academy of Web Television for Best Drama Writing and screened at survivor justice nonprofits across the country. A 2022-23 Emerging Writer Fellow at The Center for Fiction, she currently teaches writing at NYU.
