Camila Cossio
Camila Cossio is a senior attorney with the Endangered Species Program at the Center for Biological Diversity in Portland, Oregon, where she advocates for protections for imperiled species and their habitats under the Endangered Species Act. Before joining the Center, she was an attorney with the Oregon Law Center’s Farmworker Program, where she litigated employment discrimination claims and advocated for safer working and housing conditions for farmworkers.
At Texas Law, Camila was co-president of the Environmental Law Society; co-president of the Student Animal Legal Defense Fund; and staff editor of the Texas Hispanic Journal for Law & Policy. She worked for the Interamerican Association for Environmental Defense in Costa Rica and the Animal Legal Defense Fund. After graduating from Texas Law, she earned an LL.M in Animal Law from Lewis & Clark Law School in Portland.