Kristen Schlemmer is a lawyer who works to secure water justice in her hometown of Houston. With Bayou City Waterkeeper since 2018, her work uses the law to confront water injustice, from water pollution and infrastructure failures, to wetlands destruction and flooding, to inequities in climate mitigation and disaster prevention. In 2021, Kristen helped secure a $2 billion consent decree that will transform Houston’s wastewater infrastructure over the next generation. She previously worked at Susman Godfrey LLP and Irvine & Conner PLLC and clerked for two federal judges. She has been honored as a Peacemaker by the Houston Peace and Justice Center and named a Rising Star by Texas Super Lawyers multiple years in a row. Kristen was an inaugural member of the Just Transitions Lawyering Cohort, is a Texas Gulf Coast Master Naturalist, and previously served on the local board of New Leaders Council, the regional group of the Sierra Club’s Lone Star Chapter, and the Houston advisory group for the Texas Civil Rights Project.