About Us

Karen L. Florini

Director of Strategic Alliances, National Climate Campaign program

Climate & Air Program

Washington, DC Office

Work

Director of Strategic Alliances for the Environmental Defense Fund's National Climate Campaign, focusing primarily on federal legislative matters; supervises EDF's climate work in Florida. Previously served as Program Manager for EDF's environmental health program for many years.

Background

J.D., Harvard University. Editor-in-Chief, Harvard Environmental Law Review.

Recent publications (partial list): Getting Nanotechnology Right the First Time (Issues in Science and Technology, Summer 2005); When Wonder Drugs Don't Work: How Antibiotic Resistance Threatens Children, Seniors, and the Medically Vulnerable (Environmental Defense, 2001); Facing the Challenge: A Status Report on the U.S. HPV Challenge Program (Environmental Defense, 2003). 

Member, Advisory Committee, Alliance for Climate Protection.

Trial attorney, Land and Natural Resources Division, U.S. Department of Justice (1984-1987); law clerk to Honorable John P. Fullam, Eastern District of Pennsylvania (1983-1984).