Charlotte Finegold

Charlotte Finegold (she/hers) is a Legal Fellow in Human Rights Watch’s Environment and Human Rights Division, where she is undertaking research and advocacy on expanding legal protections for communities forced to relocate because of climate hazards. Charlotte recently graduated from Stanford Law School, where she spent most of her time assisting asylum-seekers, refugees, and incarcerated individuals and organizing programming and advocacy around climate-related mobility and climate justice—as a member of the Immigrants’ Rights Clinic and Three Strikes Project, the president of the Stanford Immigration & Human Rights Law Association, Stanford Law Students for Climate Action, and Stanford International Refugee Project, and an intern at the Center for Gender and Refugee Studies and the Environment & Natural Resources Division of the U.S. Department of Justice. Before law school, Charlotte received a Master’s in Refugee & Forced Migration Studies from the University of Oxford and worked at UNRWA, Human Rights First, and the Schell Center for Human Rights at Yale Law School.