Veronica is a Senior Staff Attorney for New York Lawyers for the Public Interest, serving as project manager for the Environmental Justice and Community Development Project.  She is also an Associate Adjunct Professor at Fordham University School of Law.  Veronica worked for the Massachusetts Secretary for Environmental Affairs as the Director of the Environmental Justice and Brownfields Program and was the principle author of that state’s environmental justice policy.  She also served as Executive Director of Alternatives for Community and Environment, a community-based environmental justice advocacy center in Boston.

Veronica has extensive teaching experience in the field of environmental justice, environmental law, and urban planning, having held full-time faculty positions at Tufts University in the Department of Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning and Stanford Law School.  While living in Russia Siberia, Veronica worked with local communities on acute environmental issues stemming from Soviet era policies and helped establish the first environmental law clinic in the Russian Federation at Irkutsk State University.  She is former Chair of the U.S. EPA’s federal advisory committee on environmental justice, the National Environmental Justice Advisory Council.  She currently serves on the boards of Earth Island Institute, Community Rights Council, and Groundwork USA as well as on the Environment Committee of the City Bar of New York.