LAURA MEBERT

Laura has been working with Our Children’s Trust since 2021 and joined the staff in 2023. In her past career as a social anthropologist, she studied large-scale injustices, including poverty-wage jobs, Coca-Cola’s privatization of water, and fossil-fuel expansion amidst the climate crisis. Her research focused on how grassroots movements can hold power structures accountable. Because courts play a crucial role in protecting fundamental rights, she left her job as a tenure-track assistant professor of social sciences at Kettering University to join the legal fight for children’s right to a livable climate.  

Laura has a JD from the University of Michigan Law School, a PhD in social anthropology from the University of Manchester (UK), and a MA from CIESAS-Sureste (Mexico).