Andrew Kieffer joined the Sabin Center in September 2025 as a Fellow with the Renewable Energy Legal Defense Initiative, which uses legal research and engagement to support siting utility- and community-scale renewable energy facilities and associated transmission and storage equipment. His work focuses on identifying legal pathways to challenge land-use and siting barriers which impede the development of renewable energy and delay the energy transition.
Andrew graduated from the University of Chicago Law School in 2025. Prior to law school, Andrew served as a city planner for the City of Warrenville in Illinois — seeing firsthand the complex impacts of localism on community development. He graduated with a B.S. in environmental planning from the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point.
Rebecca Lowy also joined the Sabin Center in October 2025 as a Climate Law Fellow. Her work focuses on the intersection of law, science, and policy in addressing climate change, including legal frameworks for carbon sequestration, the use of climate attribution science in litigation and policymaking, and domestic and international regulatory approaches to climate governance.
Rebecca graduated from the University of Michigan Law School in 2023, where she also received a M.S. in Environmental Policy from the School for Environment and Sustainability. She holds an A.B. in Geosciences from Princeton University. Before joining the Sabin Center, Rebecca clerked for the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York and practiced as an associate attorney at the Environmental Law and Policy Center.
We look forward to sharing Andrew and Rebecca’s contributions to the large body of work the Sabin Center is taking on!
Tiffany is the Communications Associate at the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law.
