Charlie Lord

1993

Charlie Lord

Alternative for Community and Environment

http://www.ace-ej.org

Roxbury, Massachusetts, United States

Community Improvement & Economic Development, Environment

The Bold Idea:

ACE is an environmental justice center working to build power in communities of color and low-income communities to combat environmental injustice. ACE is now the leading environmental justice organization in Massachusetts.

Biography:

Charlie Lord is a graduate of Yale University and the University of Virginia School of Law, where he was the Editor-in-Chief of the Law Review. After clerking on the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, he received an Echoing Green Fellowship in 1993 and co-founded Alternatives for Community & Environment (ACE), in Roxbury. Charlie served on ACE's Board until 2004. Charlie is now the Director of the Urban Ecology Institute at Boston College and serves as the chair of the Urban Ecology Collaborative, a multi-city partnership that includes organizations in Boston, New Haven, New York, Pittsburgh, Baltimore and Washington. The UEC is working to improve ecosystem services for and with urban communities through enhancing tree canopy and through transformation of urban land. Charlie has taught environmental law and policy and environmental legal history at Boston College Law School and is now a lecturer in the Environmental Studies Program at Boston College. He is on the boards of directors for the Community Rights Council in Washington, D.C. He has published numerous articles on environmental law and environmental policy. Charlie was named a Barr Foundation Fellow for 2007, recognizing outstanding leaders in the non-profit sector in Boston.