Elizabeth Donger, JD, MPP
Director of Climate Change and Children's Rights Program
Elizabeth Donger, JD, MPP, is a climate change attorney and researcher, and the founder and director of the Climate Change and Children’s Rights (Triple C R) Program at the FXB Center for Health and Human Rights. The program designs and supports legal and public health strategies to advance climate justice for children.
Elizabeth has experience working across academia, nonprofits and the private sector. As a lawyer, she has contributed to strategic litigation to address climate change at the nonprofit Our Children’s Trust and the NYU Climate Litigation Accelerator, and worked at an international law firm on investor-State disputes and litigation relating to Environmental Social and Governance issues. In private practice, her active pro bono docket included representation of child asylum seekers, domestic violence survivors, and States engaging in negotiations relating to treaties on ocean biodiversity and plastic pollution. Prior to becoming a lawyer, Elizabeth spent nearly a decade working with nonprofits located in Colombia, Jordan, the UK and US on interconnected issues of forced displacement and land rights, children’s rights, and climate change.
Elizabeth’s writing examines a wide range of human rights topics and has appeared in the Lancet, Transnational Environmental Law, Anti-Trafficking Review, the Journal of Information Technology for Development, and Cambridge University Press.