Casandia Bellevue is a senior associate attorney with the Community Partnerships Program, and is based in New York.

Casandia works in partnership with environmental justice communities in New Jersey to support their advocacy for clean, healthy, and sustainable environments for their communities. Prior to Earthjustice, Casandia spent three years as a staff attorney at The Legal Aid Society. There, she represented low-income tenants in Housing Court and New York State Supreme Court proceedings while also advocating to a variety of state agencies on behalf of her clients. Casandia graduated from the Elisabeth Haub School of Law, formerly known as Pace Law School, with certificates in International and Environmental Law. While at Pace, Casandia acted as a student delegate from the Global Center for Environmental Legal Studies to IUCN’s 2016 World Conservation Congress (WCC) in Hawaiʻi. At the WCC, she collaborated with indigenous leaders, diplomats, scientists, and others on motions regarding the implementation of the Paris Agreement, environmental justice, and the UN Sustainable Development Goals, among other topics. In 2017, her article, GMOs, International Law and Indigenous Peoples, was published by the Pace International Law Review.