Helping vulnerable communities just like her own across the U.S. has been Brittney’s mission for the past three years in her role as an attorney for the U.S. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC). Hired right out of law school, Brittney helped stand up the agency’s first-ever Environmental Justice and Equity Group. Working within the Office of General Counsel, she crafted new federal regulations and guidance on environmental justice and reviewed dozens of applications for natural gas and hydroelectric facilities, all with an eye to protecting vulnerable communities from harmful effects.

Loving Temple at first sight. During her senior year as an economics and political science undergraduate at Arizona State University, Brittney traveled to Temple for a conference on waste reduction and clean energy and quickly fell in love with the campus and the university’s close connections to its surrounding communities. 

At Beasley, Brittney found a key mentor in I. Herman Stearn Professor Amy Sinden, an expert in environmental law. Brittney ambitiously approached Sinden during office hours in her first year, and Sinden in turn provided invaluable career advice, recommended coursework and wrote reference letters to help Brittney get an edge. It paid off: Brittney landed clerkships and internships with several nonprofits, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and FERC, helping her to secure a position with the commission a year later.