Sean Hecht, Managing Attorney

Sean Hecht serves as the managing attorney of Earthjustice’s California Regional Office. Based out of the organization’s Los Angeles office, Sean oversees the California Regional Office’s work fighting for the rights of all to a healthy environment regardless of where in the state they live, to transition California to an equitable zero-emissions future where cars, trucks, buildings, and power plants run on clean energy, not fossil fuels, and to protect the state’s magnificent natural spaces and biodiversity.

Sean came to Earthjustice after two decades on the faculty of UCLA School of Law, where he served most recently as the co-executive director of the Emmett Institute on Climate Change and the Environment and co-director of the Frank G. Wells Environmental Law Clinic

After growing up in southern California, Sean attended Yale University and the University of Michigan Law School. Earlier in his career, Sean served as a deputy attorney general with the California Department of Justice, as an attorney in private practice at a small firm, and as a judicial law clerk for Hon. Laughlin E. Waters (Central District of California).

Candice Youngblood, Associate Attorney

Candice Youngblood is an associate attorney with the California Regional Office, where she works on the Right to Zero campaign. Candice came to Earthjustice as a litigation assistant before law school and returned as a Skadden Fellow. Her fellowship project focused on issues at the intersection of clean transportation and racial justice.

Candice primarily works on accelerating the adoption of zero-emissions technologies in California and nationwide. An asthmatic, Candice grew up in Greater Los Angeles and the Inland Empire experiencing first-hand the effects that “diesel death zones” have on low-income communities and communities of color. Raised in a family of truck drivers, Candice is committed to achieving a just transition for fossil fuel-dependent communities as we electrify the goods movement industry and shift toward a clean energy economy.

Candice earned undergraduate and law degrees from the University of California, Berkeley. She clerked for the Honorable Dale A. Drozd in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California prior to returning to Earthjustice. While clerking, Candice also founded Youth on Root, an environmental justice leadership program for California youth.