Center for International Environmental Law

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Nikki Reisch (she/her) is the Director of the Climate & Energy Program. Prior to joining CIEL, Nikki was the Legal Director of the Center for Human Rights and Global Justice and a Supervising Attorney in the Global Justice Clinic at NYU School of Law. She was also an Adjunct Professor in the Human Rights and Gender Justice Clinic at CUNY School of Law. Her work focused on human rights and environmental harms related to a range of domestic and international issues, including open-pit mining, large-scale tax abuse, surveillance of human rights defenders, immigration enforcement, torture, and arbitrary detention.