Elly Pepper Email & Phone Number

As a wildlife advocate for NRDC, Elly Pepper protects threatened and endangered species and their habitats by working to enact federal and state regulations and laws and by fighting back against harmful proposals regarding elephant ivory, the Endangered Species Act, and other issues. She also seeks enhanced international protections for wildlife through mechanisms like the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) and the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN), as well as by working to revise foreign countries' laws to make them more protective of wildlife. She is a 2014 graduate of the Emerging Wildlife Conservation Leaders fellowship program. Before joining NRDC, she was a legal fellow for the Environmental Defense Fund’s Gulf Coast Restoration Program. She obtained her B.A. from Bowdoin College in 2005 and her J.D. from the University of Richmond Law School in 2010. She works with the members of NRDC’s Washington, D.C., office.

Listed skills include Environmental Law, Climate Change, Legislative Relations, Policy Analysis, and 20 others.