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About Chandra Taylor:

“I find that the intersection of my interest in protecting the environment, my background, and my day-to-day experience creates an opportunity for people to see that we all have a role to play in the conservation movement,” says the all-star attorney who specializes in water quality and environmental justice issues.

The University of North Carolina School of Law alumna, raised just two hours away in historic Kinston, says it was her grandmother who inspired her to practice conservation. A young Taylor watched as the family matriarch lived the mantra of “waste not, want not,” she says.

This ethic is what drove her to apply to work at SELC in 2006, after building a public interest repertoire at UNC Law, including an internship with the Institute of Government and participation on the Environmental Appellate Advocacy moot court team, and years of practice as a consumer protection attorney.

Taylor’s desire to work alongside and represent lower-income and communities of color—where residents are often unjustly and disproportionately affected by environmental harm—her compassion, and experience all led her to SELC’s Chapel Hill office.

This ethic is what drove her to apply to work at SELC in 2006, after building a public interest repertoire at UNC Law, including an internship with the Institute of Government and participation on the Environmental Appellate Advocacy moot court team, and years of practice as a consumer protection attorney.

Taylor’s desire to work alongside and represent lower-income and communities of color—where residents are often unjustly and disproportionately affected by environmental harm—her compassion, and experience all led her to SELC’s Chapel Hill office.