Julia Olson is the Founder, Executive Director, and Chief Legal Counsel of Our Children’s Trust, the non-profit public interest law firm that provides strategic, campaign-based legal services to youth from diverse backgrounds to secure their legal rights to a safe climate system. Julia graduated from UC Hastings College of the Law (now UC Law San Francisco) in 1997, and founded Our Children’s Trust in 2010, initiating a global wave of rights-based climate litigation, especially cases brought on behalf of children. Julia is lead counsel in Juliana v. United States, the groundbreaking constitutional climate change case brought by 21 young Americans, including 11 Black, Brown, and Indigenous youth, against the U.S. government for violating their Fifth Amendment rights to life, liberty, property, public trust resources, and equal protection of the law. Our Children’s Trust represents the plaintiffs in Held v. State of Montana, where the first-ever constitutional climate trial in the nation’s history in June 2023 resulted in a sweeping win in August, and in Navahine F. v. Hawaiʻi Department of Transportation, which is scheduled to be the second-ever constitutional climate case to go to trial in the U.S. in June 2024.