Sharmeen Morrison is a senior attorney with Earthjustice’s Biodiversity Defense Program. She has litigated cases to defend imperiled species and ecosystems across the country, including native insect pollinators, greater sage-grouse of the North American sagebrush steppe, golden-cheeked warblers of central Texas, and Florida manatees.

She received her J.D. from NYU School of Law, where she was a Root-Tilden-Kern public-interest scholar and served on the NYU Law Review. She received her B.A. in Sociology from the University of California, Berkeley.