Ebony H. Griffin-Guerrier

Ebony H. Griffin-Guerrier is Counsel at Singleton Schreiber LLP and Co-Director of the firm's Impact Litigation & Policy group, where she leads legal strategy, policy advocacy, and community engagement across a broad range of systemic threats to public health, property rights, and community wellbeing. Her practice spans environmental justice litigation, toxic tort, Clean Air and Clean Water Act enforcement, infrastructure and pipeline opposition, data center environmental impacts, food systems accountability, and common law claims on behalf of communities facing corporate harm.

A nationally recognized environmental justice advocate, Ms. Griffin-Guerrier brings a practice rooted in communities — not just courtrooms. Originally from a low-income community in North Alabama, she has dedicated her career to fighting pollution, climate inequity, environmental racism, and the corporate practices that put profit above public health. Her current work focuses on the environmental and community impacts of large-scale infrastructure development — from fossil fuel pipelines to data centers — where she represents landowners and communities navigating regulatory proceedings, coalition strategy, and litigation.

The community lawyering model that defines her practice took shape at the Public Interest Law Center in Philadelphia, where she led the organization's environmental justice work. There, she worked alongside residents and community organizations to identify environmental harms, develop legal and policy strategies, and fight for solutions at every level — drafting and lobbying for legislation before city, state, and federal bodies; testifying before city council and the state legislature on behalf of EJ communities; filing lawsuits; negotiating settlements; and structuring community benefits agreements. As director of the Law Center's Garden Justice Legal Initiative, she extended that model into food systems advocacy — building coalitions, leading community education efforts through the Vacant Land 215 initiative, and advocating for urban agriculture policies and vacant land access. That community food systems work is the direct predecessor to the food justice and food systems litigation she pursues today, including emerging claims around the health impacts of ultra-processed foods. Her Philadelphia work also led to her role as a founding member of the City's first Environmental Justice Advisory Commission.

From there, Ms. Griffin-Guerrier served as Senior Legislative Counsel at Earthjustice, where she focused on the cumulative impacts of toxic pollution in overburdened communities. Earlier in her career, she worked as an environmental and safety regulatory associate in Washington, D.C., and clerked at the White House Council on Environmental Quality and the EPA's Office of Enforcement and Compliance Assurance as a law student. She served as a judicial clerk to the Honorable Zoe Bush following graduation.

Ms. Griffin-Guerrier is a member of the Board of Directors of the Environmental Law Institute and the National Bar Association, a member of the Society of Women Trial Lawyers, and serves on the Law360 2026 Environmental Editorial Board. She is a 2026 and 2025 Lawdragon 500 Leading Environmental Lawyer and a 2025 Lawdragon 500 X – Next Generation honoree. A proud member of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc., she is committed to the advancement of women of color in law and public advocacy.

She holds a J.D. from Howard University School of Law and a B.A. in Spanish Language and Literature with a minor in Chemistry from the University of Alabama at Birmingham, where she also studied abroad in Spain and Peru.

• 2026 Lawdragon 500 Leading Environmental Lawyers - The Green 500
• 2025 Lawdragon 500 X – The Next Generation
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