Candice Youngblood

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 environmental justice.

Candice represents community and environmental groups in state and federal court and advocates for agencies to adopt zero-emissions industrial and transportation policies. Her work primarily focuses on shifting the production and movement of goods to zero-emissions by modernizing manufacturing facilities with clean heat technology and electrifying heavy-duty trucks. She also works to accelerate electric transit bus deployments to clean the air Angelenos breathe and create family-sustaining local jobs. Candice’s firsthand experience with the disproportionate harms of air pollution shapes her advocacy. Candice grew up with asthma in Los Angeles and the Inland Empire, and she comes from a family of truck drivers. She is deeply committed 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 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.