Alicia Arrington-Harris

Alicia Arrington-Harris is a passionate advocate dedicated to pursuing legal pathways that repair environmental harm in overburdened communities. At Sher Edling, she represents states and public entities in cases that seek to hold environmental bad actors accountable. She received her joint J.D. And Masters of City Planning at the University of California at Berkeley Law School and College of Environmental Design. There she pursued her interests at the intersections of land, housing, and environmental justice. She was the founder of the Free the Land Project, a pro bono project serving Black-led environmental justice groups from the East Bay and was the inaugural Environmental Justice Editor of Ecology Law Quarterly.

Before joining Sher Edling, Alicia was an Environmental Justice Attorney at Lawyers for Good Government, where she helped hundreds of organizations fight back against illegal grant terminations and explored pathways for community benefits agreements in clean energy projects. She was also an Assistant Attorney General at the Washington DC Office of Attorney in their Housing and Environmental Justice section, pursuing cases to protect District residents against predatory landlords and environmental damage.

Prior to law school, Alicia worked for six years as a grassroots organizer in New York City. Her experiences organizing with community are what has driven her legal career in planning and environmental justice to attempt to contribute to the creation of new, healthier and more autonomous realities for Black communities around the U.S.