Alfred Brownell

Alfred Brownell

Executive Director
Green Advocates; Tom & Andi Bernstein Visiting Human Rights Fellow Yale Law School

Alfred Brownell is an internationally recognized environmental rights activist and lawyer from Liberia. He is a Tom & Andi Bernstein Visiting Human Rights Fellow at the Yale Law School and previously served as an Associate Research Professor and Distinguished Scholar in Residence at Northeastern University School of Law.  For more than two decades, Brownell has advocated to protect the environment and human rights in West Africa and to empower Liberians and West Africans victimized by resource exploitation. He co-founded and headed the public interest law nongovernmental environmental rights organization Green Advocates International and co-established the Alliance for Rural Democracy (ARD). In 2019, Brownell won the prestigious Goldman Environmental Prize, for his work protecting tropical forests in Liberia from development by palm oil companies.