Karin Sheldon is a lawyer with more than 30 years of experience in natural resources and environmental law, with an emphasis on the protection and management of the federal lands and resources of the American West. She is President of Four Echoes Strategies, a consulting firm that provides policy analysis and strategic advice on Western conservation issues. Karin is a Senior Fellow of the Getches-Wilkinson Center for Natural Resources, Energy & the Environment at the University of Colorado School of Law, and serves on the Center’s Advisory Council. She is also an adjunct professor at the University of Colorado School of Law, where she has taught courses in water, public lands and wildlife law and directed the Law School’s Environmental and Energy Law Clinic.
From 2007 to 2013, Karin was President of Western Resource Advocates, a regional non-profit environmental organization working to promote clean energy and conserve the West’s land, water, and natural resources. Prior to 2007, Karin was Associate Dean for the Environmental Law Program, Professor of Law, and Director of the Environmental Law Center at Vermont Law School. Before joining the faculty at Vermont Law School, Karin was President of The Wilderness Society in Washington, D.C., a staff attorney with the Sierra Club Legal Defense Find (now Earth Justice) in Colorado, a partner in a public interest law firm, and a member of Ralph Nader’s original Public Interest Research Group.
Karin is a graduate of Vassar College and the University of Washington School of Law.