Kristen Hite ’00
International Policy Analyst, Environmental Defense Fund
Washington, D.C.
EDUCATION
B.A. and B.S., Wofford College (2000)
M.S. in environmental management, University of San Francisco de Quinto, Ecuador
J.D., Georgetown University Law School, Washington, D.C.
CAREER HIGHLIGHTS
Hite began her legal career at the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in New Orleans, La., during the same month that Hurricane Katrina devastated the Gulf Coast. In law school, Hite was an editor of the Georgetown International Environmental Law Review and a member of Georgetown’s moot court team. As a Rotary Scholar in Ecuador, she developed a forest management plan in Spanish that was approved by the Ecuadorian government to secure legal protection for 3,000 acres of rainforest in the Ecuadorian Amazon. She serves on the board of directors for SustainUS, a youth organization for sustainable development that she co-founded in 2001. Hite currently works for Environmental Defense Fund to help improve international laws and policies in support of sustainable livelihoods and the environment.