
Brenda Pfahnl
Host: Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota
Sponsor: 3M Company, Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath
Current Fellow
Shiva provided transactional legal services, direct representation, and policy advocacy to low-income and environmental justice communities in New York developing affordable, reliable, and clean energy projects that create local economic development and relieve utility burdens.
Lack of access to affordable, clean energy poses a significant challenge for New York City’s low-income communities. With electricity rates 59% higher in New York than the national average and record rates of issuance of power termination notices, low-income families face a crushing utility burden. In addition, these same communities shoulder the lion’s share of the negative health outcomes, unreliability, and climate impacts of aging, conventional, fossil fuel-based energy infrastructure.
In the past two years, Shiva has:
Host: Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota
Sponsor: 3M Company, Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath
Current Fellow
Host: Texas RioGrande Legal Aid, Inc.
Sponsor: Texas Access to Justice Foundation
Host: Texas Civil Rights Project
Sponsor: Texas Access to Justice Foundation
Host: Legal Aid Society of Middle Tennessee and the Cumberlands
Sponsor: Albert & Anne Mansfield Foundation
Current Fellow