Gil Damon is a JD candidate at Yale Law School. He is interested in environmental litigation and grassroots organizing. Gil holds an MPP from Cambridge University, where he held the Gates Cambridge Scholarship and worked for the British Royal Society on space and energy diplomacy. He received a B.S. in Psychology & Political Science from Florida State University, interning for NASA, the White House, and Florida lawmakers. He began his studies at Tallahassee Community College.

Before law school, Gil spent three years at the Center for Law, Energy, and the Environment, where he designed strategies to tackle methane—a devastating climate super pollutant—in the energy, agriculture, and waste sectors. As Lead Methane Research Fellow, he helped build the Subnational Methane Action Coalition, which advises more than 20 states, representing over 200 million people. He is co-author of Hunting Methane With Satellites and the U.S. Federal Methane Abatement Handbook.

A proud native of Florida’s Forgotten Coast, Gil runs the Downriver Project—a nonprofit that works to preserve local resources for hunting and fishing. The group has defeated several major oil and wastewater threats, all worth millions to their backers. Gil has also served his home state as a riverboat captain in the Florida Park Service, operating a 45-passenger vessel while teaching passengers about manatees and alligators.

Growing up, Gil watched as his hometown was reshaped by hurricanes, groundwater pollution, oyster dieoffs, and the BP oil spill. He aims to use his legal education to represent similarly vulnerable communities. Gil is a trail runner, private pilot, and key lime pie enthusiast.