Allison Silverman

Allison Silverman is the newest addition to CIEL's Climate Change Program, and will build on the program's long-standing work to protect the rights of indigenous peoples and local communities affected by REDD+ initiatives. Ms. Silverman is a recent graduate of Vermont Law School, where she pursued both a JD degree and Masters in Environmental Law and Policy. There, she worked at the Institute for Energy and the Environment on energy efficiency, smart grid, and energy justice issues. She also co-chaired the Campus Greening Committee, was a Schweitzer Fellow working on community energy efficiency efforts, a USAID China Fellow researching renewable energy and green jobs, and a research assistant on a project focusing on the need to move beyond consumerism and reinvigorate environmental activism.

Before law school, Ms. Silverman worked for the Natural Resources Defense Council where she coordinated a "BioGem" campaign in Chile to promote energy alternatives to an ill-conceived massive hydroelectric scheme. Prior to this work, she was a Fulbright Scholar in Panama, where she implemented a solar rural electrification project that established a night school for adults and a community fund to run and maintain the energy systems. Ms. Silverman graduated from Brown University where she pursued a degree in environmental studies and wrote an honors thesis on urban agriculture, community planning, and campus farming.

In her spare time, Ms. Silverman is an avid endurance athlete who seizes any and every opportunity to frolick outdoors with friends and family.

Ms. Silverman can be reached at asilverman@ciel.org.