Meghan Gavin

Meghan E. Gavin is a climate attorney. Before joining the Carbon Containment Lab as general counsel, Meghan was a partner at Cascadia Law Group, PLLC, a boutique environmental law firm in Washington State. Meghan’s notable work experience includes defending Tribal Treaty rights and counseling clients deploying innovative technologies designed to build resiliency to the climate crisis or mitigate greenhouse gas emissions, including through marine carbon dioxide removal, geological carbon sequestration, and renewable energy development. Meghan also provided her clients international climate policy support and was a two-time delegate to the United Nations Climate Change Conference. 

Meghan previously worked as a law clerk in federal district court and interned with the U.S. Department of Justice, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, and the Natural Resources Defense Council. She holds a Juris Doctor from the University of Washington School of Law with a concentration in environmental law; an advanced certificate in conservation biology from Fordham University Graduate School of Arts & Sciences; and a Bachelor of Science in environmental geoscience from Boston College, where her research in the coastal processes lab earned departmental honors. She also holds a certificate in financing nationally determined contributions from the Frankfurt School of Finance & Management and the United Nations Collaborating Centre for Climate & Sustainable Energy Finance.