Charlie Lord is the Director of the Urban Ecology Institute at Boston College. Founded in 1998, the Urban Ecology Institute (UEI) helps communities build healthy, safe and vibrant cities by improving science and civic education for middle and high school youth and by working with urban communities to understand, advocate for, and transform natural resources. UEI connects the green infrastructure of a city with the educational, economic, public health, and quality of life needs of urban residents.
UEI engages over 1,100 young people and guides 31 teaching professionals in hands-on field-based science learning. It works with community development corporations and urban green space advocates in seven Massachusetts cities to transform the most neglected of urban resources into crucial community assets. UEI and its partners have created a national model for an inquiry-based, hands-on approach to science teaching in urban public schools.
In 1993, Mr. Lord was a co-founder and, to 1998, co-director of Alternatives for Community and Environment, an environmental justice center based in Roxbury. He served on ACE's Board until 2004.
Mr. Lord has taught environmental law and policy and environmental legal history at Boston College Law School and is now a lecturer in the Environmental Studies Program at Boston College. He is also on the boards of directors for the Community Rights Council in Washington, D.C. He has published numerous articles on environmental law, environmental justice and environmental policy.
Mr. Lord is a graduate of Yale University and the University of Virginia School of Law, where he was the Editor-in-Chief of the Law Review. After clerking on the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, he received an Echoing Green Fellowship in 1993.
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