Linda Gordon

Bio

Linda Gordon is the Climate Justice program manager at the Human Rights Center. She coordinates the Center’s research on human impacts of extreme weather and environmental hazards made more severe by climate change, and is the lead investigator for the program’s research understanding farmworkers’ health, safety, economic security, and data privacy experiences working during wildfires in California. Linda also supervises student research and case development for litigation related to climate migration and displacement, and serves as a coach for Berkeley’s environmental law moot court competition team.

Linda attended the UC Berkeley School of Law (JD), where she received certificates of specialization in public interest and social justice, environmental law, and economic justice and consumer protection. While in law school, Linda served as co-director of the Workers’ Rights Clinic, and media director for Ecology Law Quarterly.

Linda received her Bachelor’s Degree from Barnard College at Columbia University, where she majored in history with a concentration in human rights, laws, and the state. Prior to law school, Linda worked at the Impact Fund, managing a portfolio of grants supporting social, economic, and environmental justice impact litigation across the United States, Mexico, and Canada.