Rica Garcia

- Environmental Justice Clinical Fellow
- Room N118, Neukom Building
Biography
Ms. Garcia is currently serving as the Environmental Justice Clinical Fellow as part of the Mills Legal Clinic. She previously served as a Deputy Attorney General at the Bureau of Environmental Justice at the California Attorney General’s Office and as an Environmental Law Fellow at Shute, Mihaly & Weinberger LLP. She graduated from UCLA School of Law, specializing in Public Interest Law and Policy and Critical Race Studies.
During law school, Ms. Garcia served as Chief Comments Editor for UCLA Law Review. She also worked as an intern with the Center on Race, Poverty and the Environment, Natural Resources Defense Council, and National Center for Youth Law.
Ms. Garcia has a Master’s degree in Urban and Regional Planning from the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs. She graduated with the Highest Honors from the University of California, Berkeley with a B.A. in Urban Studies and B.S. in Society & Environment.