Mari Margil

Mari Margil is the first associate director of the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund (CELDF). She opened CELDF’s West Coast office in Portland, Oregon, in 2007 and teaches Democracy Schools (weekend seminars which assist groups and communities challenge the ability of corporate “rights” to trump the rights of communities) across the country. Mari was also involved in CELDF’s groundbreaking work assisting Ecuador’s Constituent Assembly in its historic decision to place ecosystem rights (the “rights of nature”) directly into the new Ecuadorian constitution, a global first.

Who speaks for the Trees? Driving Nature’s Rights into Law