Based in Los Angeles, Candice Youngblood is a senior attorney with the Right To Zero campaign. She works on transportation and industrial electrification issues nationwide.

Candice develops and coordinates advocacy strategies across the organization to advance transportation electrification. Her work primarily focuses on reducing air pollution from the movement of goods and people by accelerating the deployment of zero-emission trucks and buses. She also works to modernize industrial facilities by advancing the adoption of clean heat technologies, such as electric boilers and heat pumps. She represents community and environmental groups in state and federal court and advocates before local, state, and federal agencies.

Candice’s firsthand experience with the disproportionate harms of air pollution shapes her advocacy. She grew up with asthma in Los Angeles and the Inland Empire and comes from a family of truck drivers. She is deeply committed to ensuring the clean energy transition benefits both frontline communities and workers.

Candice initially joined Earthjustice as a litigation assistant before law school and later returned as a Skadden Fellow. Her fellowship project focused on issues at the intersection of clean transportation and environmental justice.

Candice earned undergraduate and law degrees from the University of California, Berkeley, where she received the Francine Marie Diaz Memorial Award for her commitment to social justice through legal services and advocacy. She clerked for the Honorable Dale A. Drozd in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California prior to returning to Earthjustice. While clerking, Candice founded Youth on Root, an environmental justice nonprofit program empowering California youth.