Adam Arnold is Environmental Counsel and an investigator at Government Accountability Project. In addition to working with clients and advocating for sound and accountable environmental policy, he is author of our popular “Notes From Underground” series. Adam studied law at the University of the District of Columbia (UDC), where he first worked with Government Accountability Project in the school’s clinical program. He embraced Government Accountability Project’s mission and interned for a summer with Legal Director, Tom Devine. After graduating from UDC in 2014, Adam was admitted to the Maryland Bar. He completed his LL.M. in International Environmental Law and International Organizations at American University in the spring of 2015.

Previously, Adam worked as a journalist, a freelance proofreader, and a tour guide in Berlin, Germany. Travel, music, art, and fiction writing continue to occupy large swaths of space in his life. Adam currently lives in Nairobi, Kenya, with his wife and two children.