\u00a0briefs, testified before Congress, and is a frequent contributor to media outlets. She is also a member of multiple boards and committees on environmental protection, scholarship, science, and public health.<\/span><\/p>\nPreviously Professor Colangelo served as a trial attorney for the Environmental Enforcement Section (EES) of the Environment and Natural Resources Division at the Department of Justice for many years. She joined the Division through the Attorney General\u2019s Honors Program. At EES, she managed complex civil environmental enforcement cases for pollution control and cleanup of hazardous waste sites to negotiated or litigated resolution, appearing on behalf of the United States in trials across the country. Professor Colangelo received multiple awards from the Environmental Protection Agency and from the Environment Division for her work. In addition, she was nominated for two awards from the Attorney General.<\/span><\/p>\nProfessor Colangelo is a graduate of Georgetown Law, where she was a student in the Clinic she now directs. She also served as research assistant to Professor Richard Lazarus and was a member of the Georgetown International Environmental Law Review. She holds a B.A. from Brown University, where she graduated\u00a0<\/span>magna cum laude<\/span><\/i>, was inducted into\u00a0<\/span>Phi Beta Kappa<\/span><\/i>, and received the William Gaston Premium Scholarship.<\/span><\/p>\nGraduate Fellows<\/h2>\n
Corrina Carter<\/strong> is a graduate of Lewis & Clark Law School in Portland, Oregon. At Lewis & Clark, Corrina earned an Environmental and Natural Resources Law Certificate with Distinction, participated in the Earthrise Law Center Clinic, and served on the board for the school’s chapter of OutLaw. She also clerked for the Environment and Natural Resources Division of the Department of Justice, the Office of the Federal Public Defender for the District of Oregon, and the Office of General Counsel for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. More recently, she began her legal career as an Honors Program attorney in DOJ’s Environmental Enforcement Section, where she gained experience litigating under CERCLA, the Safe Drinking Water Act, and other environmental statutes.<\/p>\nBefore law school, Corrina completed an MFA in Creative Writing, taught freshman composition at Iowa State University, and worked as an environmental educator at Osprey Wilds Environmental Learning Center in Sandstone, Minnesota. During her time as an environmental educator, she was the primary caretaker for a sassy but adorable porcupine named Spike. Corrina’s hobbies include reading, writing, birding, and listening to true crime podcasts.<\/p>\n
Sam<\/strong> Roth<\/strong> is a Clinical Teaching Fellow and Supervisory Attorney in the Environmental Law & Justice Clinic. He comes to Georgetown from Northeastern University, where he was a Law and Policy Fellow during the 2025\u20132026 academic year.<\/p>\nSam previously served as Associate General Counsel at the White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ), which coordinates the Federal government\u2019s efforts to improve, preserve and protect America\u2019s public health and environment. At CEQ, Sam\u2019s portfolios included federal sustainability, environmental justice, permitting reform, oversight and investigations, strategic communications, and administrative law.<\/p>\n
Prior to joining CEQ, Sam was an attorney-advisor at the National Endowment for the Humanities, a federal agency that promotes progress and scholarship in the humanities. He began his legal career as an associate attorney at Sullivan & Cromwell LLP, where his practice areas included the creation and administration of tax-exempt entities, philanthropic giving, tax planning, estate administration, and other matters. While in private practice, he served\u202fpro bono<\/em>\u202fas director of the New York\u2013Presbyterian Hospital Wills Clinic.<\/p>\nSam received his J.D. and B.A. degrees from Columbia University. He was the 135th Editor in Chief of the\u202fColumbia Daily Spectator<\/em>.<\/p>\nClinic Manager<\/h2>\n
Niko Perazich <\/strong>is responsible for the day-to-day operations of the clinic. Prior to Georgetown Niko worked at various DC-area law firms as a paralegal. Niko is a graduate of Middlebury College and is married with two young children.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Clinic Director Sara Colangelo\u00a0is an Associate Professor of Law and the Director of the Environmental Law & Justice Clinic. She is the 2020 recipient of the Georgetown Law Fahy Teaching Award. From 2015-2021 Professor Colangelo served as Director of Georgetown\u2019s Environmental Law and Policy Program, teaching multiple courses in environmental law. Her scholarship is forthcoming […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"parent":3172,"menu_order":156,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3199","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/experiential-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/experiential-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/experiential-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/experiential-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/experiential-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3199"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/experiential-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3199\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32103,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/experiential-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3199\/revisions\/32103"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/experiential-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/experiential-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}