Charlotte Biren

Charlotte Biren joined the Sabin Center in September 2026 as the Climate Justice Legal Fellow. Her work focuses on evaluating environmental justice and equity considerations in climate change law and policy.

Charlotte graduated from New York University School of Law in 2026, where she was a Root-Tilden-Kern Public Interest Scholar. At NYU, she was a student advocate in the Global Justice Clinic and the Legal Empowerment and Judicial Independence Clinic, a research assistant with NYU’s Climate Litigation Accelerator, and a staff editor for the NYU Review of Law and Social Change. She was a summer clerk with EarthRights International and Earthjustice Puerto Rico. Prior to law school, she worked on human rights and environmental justice issues in Ecuador, Peru, and the United States, including with Kofán and Shipibo-Konibo communities and in the Los Angeles Mayor’s Office of Sustainability. Charlotte received her B.A. in Development Studies and Latin American and Caribbean Studies from Brown University in 2016.