ANDREA RODGERS

Andrea has been working with Our Children’s Trust since 2010 and joined the staff in 2017, representing youth in constitutional climate change cases against governments, contributing to organizational legal strategy and case development. She supervises Our Children’s Trust’s  government affairs attorney and climate scientist.   

Andrea is counsel of record in Juliana v. United States, Genesis v. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Held v. State of Montana, Navahine v. Hawaiʻi Dept of Transportation, and is actively developing several state cases including Florida, where in 2022 she led a petition for rulemaking on behalf of 200+ youth to set a target of 100% of the state’s electricity to be generated from clean renewable energy by 2050. In addition to advancing our federal cases, Andrea supports Canada’s first youth-led climate case that received a favorable ruling before the Federal Court of Appeals, La Rose v. His Majesty the King, putting the youth plaintiffs on the path to trial.  

Andrea is the author of numerous publications, including “The Injustice of 1.5º-2ºC: The Need for a Scientifically Based Standard of Fundamental Rights Protection in Constitutional Climate Change Cases” in the Virginia Environmental Law Journal (2022), which was cited by the Hawaiʻi Supreme Court. Andrea is the 2024 recipient of the Svitlana Kravchenko Environmental Rights Award from Land Air Water at the University of Oregon School of Law.   

Prior to joining Our Children’s Trust, she was an honors attorney for U.S. Department of Transportation, in-house legal counsel for Snoqualmie Indian Tribe, staff attorney for Western Environmental Law Center, and clerked for Hon. John C. Gemmill on Arizona Court of Appeals. Andrea received her JD from Arizona State University and BA from University of California, Santa Barbara.