Molly is a Research Fellow with the Wheeler Water Institute at UC Berkeley’s Center for Law, Energy & the Environment (CLEE). Her work at CLEE concentrates on groundwater recharge innovation under California’s Sustainable Groundwater Management Act. Specifically, Molly seeks to understand the institutional hurdles that stymie effective stewardship of natural resources as well as the role interdisciplinarity can play in overcoming these hurdles. Prior to CLEE, Molly worked with organizations like the Nicholas Institute for Energy, Environment & Sustainability, the North Carolina Conservation Network, the Administrative Conference of the United States, and the North Carolina Department of Justice on state-level policy intersections between water and energy. Molly also tackled more technical work through projects based out of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab and the Marine Robotics & Remote Sensing Lab, using remotely-sensed data derived from drones and satellites to address water quality and climate questions. Molly holds a JD and Master's degree from Duke University and a B.A. from UNC Chapel Hill.

Andria So is an Emmett/Frankel Fellow in Environmental Law and Policy at UCLA School of Law for 2021-2023. So earned her J.D. from NYU School of Law magna cum laude and with membership in the Order of the Coif, where she was an Article Selection Editor of NYU Review of Law and Social Change. While at law school, So was a legal extern for Judge Denny Chin of the Second Circuit and a summer law clerk at the HIV Law Project. She also served as a legal extern at NRDC in connection with NYU’s Environmental Law Clinic and a summer law clerk at Earthjustice. So’s fellowship is a return to campus, having received her B.A. in history at UCLA.

Heather Dadashi is an Emmett/Frankel Fellow in Environmental Law and Policy at UCLA School of Law for 2021-2023. Dadashi earned her B.A. in Legal Studies and Psychology from UC Berkeley and her J.D. from UCLA School of Law with a specialization in Environmental Law. During law school, Dadashi was a legal fellow at Los Angeles Waterkeeper and a legal intern in the Natural Resources Law Section of the California Attorney General’s Office and the California Coastal Commission. She also served as a senior editor of the UCLA Journal of Environmental Law and Policy, a managing editor of the UCLA Journal of International Law and Foreign Policy, and a member of the Moot Court Honors Board. Dadashi’s publication addressing tribal cultural resource protection under the California Environmental Quality Act has been published in the UCLA Journal of Environmental Law and Policy.

Louise Bedsworth is Executive Director at the Center for Law, Energy, and the Environment where she also serves as a Senior Advisor to the California-China Climate Institute. Before joining CLEE, Louise spent nearly a decade working for the State of California, most recently as the Executive Director of the Strategic Growth Council, a Cabinet-level State institution that brings together multiple agencies and departments to support sustainable communities emphasizing strong economies, social equity, and environmental stewardship. Prior to joining SGC, Louise was the Deputy Director of the Office of Planning and Research in Governor Jerry Brown’s office. At OPR, she led work on a number of collaborative research initiatives and climate change adaptation and resilience, including development of the Integrated Climate Adaptation and Resiliency Program and implementation of the State’s $70 million grant awarded under the National Disaster Resilience Competition. Before joining OPR, Louise was a research fellow at the Public Policy Institute of California, where her work focused on climate change adaptation, local government action on climate change, and transportation. She has also held positions at the Union of Concerned Scientists, Redefining Progress, and the International Institute of Applied Systems Analysis. Louise received a B.S. in Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and an M.S. in Environmental Engineering and Ph.D. in Energy and Resources, both from the University of California at Berkeley.

Daniel Carpenter-Gold (he/him/his) was a fellow at the UCLA School of Law’s Emmett Institute on Climate Change and the Environment in 2021-2023 and co-taught the Environmental Law Clinic in Spring 2022. Prior to his fellowship at UCLA, he was a staff attorney in the Equitable Neighborhoods practice area of TakeRoot Justice, which provides legal, research, and policy support to community-based organizations in New York City to dismantle racial, economic, and social oppression. Before that, he held fellowships at the Natural Resources Defense Council and New York Lawyers for the Public Interest. Daniel is now a Staff Attorney on the Public Health Law Center's Climate Justice team. Daniel was born and raised in rural Maine, received his B.A. from Columbia University, and received his J.D. from Harvard Law School.