Sasha Cornellier

    Sasha is CELP’s Development Director.  She is also an attorney and a long-time environmental advocate.  She earned both her J.D. and B.A. from the University of Washington, where she studied International Development, Community and Environmental Planning, and Germanics as an undergraduate. 

    Sasha recently returned to Seattle from Washington, D.C., where she worked as a civil rights attorney for Bernabei & Wachtel, PLLC, and as a Dorot Judicial Selection Fellow at Alliance for Justice.  As a law student, Sasha interned with the Center for International Environmental Law, Oceana, King County Superior Court Judge Carol A. Schapira, and Federal District Court Judge Marsha Pechman.  She also served as Advocacy Director and Co-President of GreenLaw, the University of Washington’s environmental law society, where she developed and implemented the organization’s first year-long advocacy project and organized its first in-house environmental moot court competition.  Prior to law school, Sasha worked as an organizer, fundraiser and researcher for Heart of America Northwest, watchdog for Washington’s contaminated Hanford Nuclear Waste Site.  She now sits on the Heart of America Research Center Board. 

    Sasha is an avid bicyclist and enjoys occasional hiking and backpacking trips from the Olympic Peninsula to California’s Lost Coast.