Education

B.S., University of Virginia
J.D., University of Tennessee College of Law

About

Heather White has more than 20 years of experience in environmental law and advocacy.

She is the author of One Green Thing: Discover Your Hidden Power to Help Save the Planet (Harper Collins 2022) and founder of the nonprofit OneGreenThing.org, the former executive director of the environmental health watchdog EWG, and a past president & CEO of Yellowstone Forever, the nonprofit partner to Yellowstone. She has also served as an adjunct faculty member at Georgetown University Law Center, Director of Education Advocacy for the National Wildlife Federation, Counsel to U.S. Senator Russ Feingold (D-Wis.), a presidential campaign staffer and recount attorney for Vice President Al Gore, and an associate at Bass, Berry & Sims law firm.

While a student at the University of Tennessee College of Law, she was managing editor of the Tennessee Law Review.

White is a frequent spokesperson in the national media on conservation and sustainability issues and has been featured on Good Morning America, CBS News, PBS, ABC and MSNBC. She has been cited in The Washington Post, New York Times, the Tennessean, and The Guardian. She serves on several national nonprofit boards and lives in Bozeman, Montana.