Christina Libre 

Associate Attorney

Christina works in the Charlottesville office to advance equitable, innovative climate resilience strategies, particularly around flood vulnerability. She engages on local land use matters; participates in litigation before state and federal courts; and supports implementation of the federal Inflation Reduction Act and the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law.

“I monitor land use projects throughout Virginia and collaborate with partners to ensure that they are developed in ways that are responsive to local context and community needs and that leave intact valuable natural resources,” Christina said.  

Christina finds SELC’s coastal climate resilience work to be really compelling. “It is urgent, it implicates huge questions of environmental justice, and advocates and governments are very much in the process of figuring out which strategies work,” she said. “I learn so much every day.”   

Growing up in Cabin John, Md. and Arlington, Va., she loved hiking and camping in Virginia’s Shenandoah National Park and George Washington National Forest, which are even closer to her now that she lives in Charlottesville. “I especially love exploring them in spring, when there is so much bright green,” she said.  

• University of California, Berkeley, School of Law; editor-in-chief, Ecology Law Quarterly
• Georgetown University