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Lindi von Mutius JD’08

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  • Visiting Professor of Law

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Biography

Lindi von Mutius is a visiting professor of law at Vermont Law and Graduate School, working
with the Environmental Justice Clinic, coaching student clinicians, and handling cases related
to waste, biofuels, and toxics. Lindi is also the Class of 1946 Distinguished Professor of
Environmental Studies at Williams College, where she teaches “Toxics, Justice, and the Law,”
and is the inaugural director of the Center for Environmental Networks (CEN). As the director
of CEN, she is the architect behind the annual Connections Summit and provides opportunities
for leaders of environmental organizations to have strategic conversations. Her research
interests include adaptation to extreme heat, natural disaster management for vulnerable
populations, biodiversity protection in forests, toxics and waste, environmental history, and
increasing equitable access to the outdoors.

Previously, Lindi worked as the inaugural director of the Harvard University Climate Action
Accelerator, where she was the innovative mind behind Harvard Climate Action Week and
Harvard@NYCW. At Harvard, Lindi also served as the director of the Sustainability and Global
Development Practice programs. She served as the chief of staff of the Sierra Club from
2017–2020, and has held executive management roles at the Trust for Public Land and the
Environmental Defense Fund. Lindi began her legal career with Flaster/Greenberg and Fox
Rothschild, and ran the government affairs team at the Representative of German Industry and
Trade, a branch of the German Federal Ministry of Economics and Climate Action, in
Washington, DC. She has represented clients from American Express, GEICO, and Porsche,
to Chapter 7 Bankruptcy Trustees, the YWCA, teenagers in the juvenile justice system, sex
workers, churches, family foundations, community groups in Camden, New Jersey, and she founded a
pro-bono legal clinic in Lyons, New Jersey, to serve homeless veterans. She began her environmental
justice career working with the Association for the Protection of the Environment in Cairo,
Egypt.

After graduating from Phillips Exeter Academy, Lindi attended Williams College, graduating with
honors in 2003. She earned her ALM in Environmental Management from Harvard University in
2005, magna cum laude, and graduated from Vermont Law and Graduate School in 2008, earning the
Excellence in Appellate Advocacy Award and the Black Law Students Distinguished Service
Award. Lindi serves on the boards of Defend Our Health, The Summit Foundation, and the Trust
for Public Land. In her free time, Lindi enjoys kayaking, winter sports, hiking, gardening, and, as
her stepson says, “tea, tacos, and dogs.”

Curriculum Vitae

Expertise

  • Environmental Justice
  • Environmental Law

Departments

  • Environmental Justice Clinic

Courses Taught

  • Environmental Justice Clinic