Kai Huschke is the Executive Director of the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund (CELDF) which pioneered the first “rights of nature” laws in the United States as a form of collective civil disobedience against corporate power. Kai has served as a national lecturer for CELDF’s Democracy School and as a board member of the Oregon Community Rights Network and Washington Community Rights Network. He teaches, presents, and writes extensively on movement building, community rights, rights of nature, and the intersection of culture and law.