Devorah is thrilled to join the Surfrider Foundation Board, to which she will lend her passion for protecting marine ecosystems and coastal public access as well as contribute expertise to the organization's legal advocacy and courtroom strategies.

Presently, Devorah is a senior attorney with the Sierra Club's Environmental Law Program, where she has spent the past 17 years developing a legal docket aimed at stemming our nation's dependence on fossil fuels. She began fighting big oil in 2010 when she led the Club's legal response to the BP oil spill disaster in the Gulf of Mexico. Over the years, she has developed numerous legal campaigns: fighting the movement of volatile crude by rail and successfully halting the build-out of West Coast crude rail terminals; defending local ordinances that restrict oil and gas development in residential and ecologically sensitive areas; engaging in numerous oil and gas sector federal rulemakings to improve drilling safety and reign in toxic pollution. Devorah currently focuses on managing Sierra Club's offshore drilling litigation docket and fighting massive oil and liquefied natural gas export terminals in the Gulf of Mexico. She regularly collaborates with frontline communities and local officials directly threatened by fossil fuel development to build strategies to halt the disproportionate harms caused by this hazardous industry.

Devorah earned her undergraduate degree from Washington University in St. Louis, her J.D. from Vermont Law School, and her Master's of Environmental Management from Yale University. When not taking the oil and gas industry to task, you can find Devorah traveling or outside with her nine-year-old daughter hiking, skiing, biking, kayaking, or playing on a sandy beach. She is based in Austin, Texas.