2025 Diversity & Inclusion Fellowship Recipients

The Environmental Law Section is happy to announce the recipients of the 2025 Diversity & Inclusion Summer Fellowship! Every year, the Section grants a number of fellowships to bright and motivated law students to help finance their summer job practicing environmental, energy, land use, and/or natural resources law at a participating government agency or public interest organization. The Section also matches the Fellows with mentors who practice in the field, and provides webinars, career panels, get-togethers and more, so the Fellows can meet other Section members and attorneys. And to cap it all off, the Section invites Fellows to attend the Environmental Law Conference at Yosemite^® in October, with free conference registration. In other words, it is a wonderful way for the Fellows to enter the world of environmental law in California, start developing their skills, and form life-long connections. The fellowship program is designed to help foster diversity within the Section, and is open to students from any law school (from California and other states as well), as long as they are interested in practicing law in California. You can learn more about the fellowship and its sponsors on the Section website.

The 2025 Fellows are listed below.  We will profile them in the eNews in the coming months – stay tuned!

• Amina Khribeche, University of San Francisco School of Law, JD Candidate 2026; California Coastal Commission. Amina is this year’s Clifford Thomas Lee Fellow.
• César Nije, University of California, Berkeley School of Law, JD Candidate 2027; East Bay Municipal Utility District
• Dexter Lim, University of California, Berkeley School of Law, JD Candidate 2027; Communities for a Better Environment in Northern California
• Elizabeth Boman, Chapman University School of Law, JD Candidate 2027; Center for Biological Diversity, Urban Wildlands Program
• Liza Williams, Georgetown University Law Center, JD Candidate 2027; City Attorney of San Francisco
• Madison Wong, University of California, Berkeley School of Law, JD Candidate 2027; California Public Utilities Commission
• Maggie Maser, University of California, Irvine School of Law, JD Candidate 2026; Earthjustice
• Pamela Linares Gutierrez, University of California, Los Angeles School of Law, JD Candidate 2027; State of California Department of Justice
• Raquel Acosta, University of California, Berkeley School of Law, JD Candidate 2027; Center on Race, Poverty & the Environment
• Saleshia Ellis, University of California, Davis School of Law, JD Candidate 2026; City Attorney of San Francisco