Elizabeth M. Dunne, Esq., brings 20 years of legal experience and a passion for designing legal frameworks that enable systemic change. Drawing on her experience as lead counsel in public interest class action lawsuits and as a law clerk the Honorable Helen Gillmor (US federal court District of Hawai’i), Elizabeth is a leading practitioner in the development of litigation strategies that advance Earth Law. She advanced many of the groundbreaking Rights of Nature laws in the US, served as counsel and advisor on the first court cases filed on behalf of ecosystems, and co-authored the US Chapter of the first Earth Law textbook - Zelle et al. (Eds.), Earth Law: Emerging Ecocentric Law—A Guide for Practitioners (Aspen Coursebook, Wolters Kluwer 2020). The story of her former client Grant Township’s fight against a frack waste injection well, based in part on the state constitutional right to a clean and healthy environment, is featured in the award-winning documentary, Invisible Hand. She is a highly skilled and determined advocate for the conservation of legacy forests throughout the Pacific Northwest. Her forest advocacy is featured in the recently released short film Last Stand: Saving the Elwha River’s Legacy Forests.