Candice Youngblood is an associate attorney with the California Regional Office, where she works on the Right To Zero campaign. She 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 racial justice.

Candice represents community and environmental groups in state and federal court and advocates for agencies to adopt zero-emissions solutions for the transportation and industrial sectors. Her work includes cleaning up the freight industry with electric vehicles and equipment and modernizing manufacturing facilities with clean heat technology. Candice’s firsthand experience with the disproportionate harms of air pollution shapes her advocacy. Growing up with asthma in Los Angeles and the Inland Empire, along with her upbringing in a family of truck drivers, fuels her dedication to ensuring the clean energy transition benefits both frontline communities and workers.

Candice earned undergraduate and law degrees from the University of California, Berkeley, where she was awarded the Francine Diaz Memorial Award for her commitment to social justice. 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 for California youth.