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About Autumn Bordner
Autumn Bordner is an associate attorney at Blue Ocean Law, with a focus on climate change law, human rights law, and decolonization. She is the co-founder of the Allies for Micronesia Project, a non-profit organization working to address the justice challenges facing peoples in the U.S. insular areas. She is also a PhD candidate at the University of Melbourne, where she studies how the colonial legacies of modern legal systems affect justice in climate adaptation. She was previously an ocean law fellow at U.C. Berkeley School of Law and a lecturer in international relations at Stanford University. She holds a J.D. from Stanford Law School, an M.S. from Stanford University, and a B.A. from Columbia University.
