Michelle Fein is a public interest attorney focused on enforcing our federal environmental laws, including the Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act, and Safe Drinking Water Act, and remedying violations of those laws on behalf of local communities and nonprofit groups in Utah and across the country. Before starting her practice, she was a litigation fellow at the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) and, while there, she assisted with litigation opposing Trump’s reductions to the Grand Staircase-Escalante and Bears Ears National Monuments. She has also worked with several environmental justice, civil rights, and human rights-oriented advocacy groups domestically and abroad. She moved to Utah in 2015 to clerk for judges in the U.S. District Court for the District of Utah. Shortly after arriving, Michelle visited and fell in love with the GSENM and has returned nearly every year since, including living and volunteering for a month at the farm at the Hell’s Backbone Grill in Boulder, Utah. She splits her time between Summit Park and the New York City suburbs, and recently welcomed her first baby into the world.