Daina Bray is a Clinical Lecturer in Law, a Senior Research Scholar in Law, and the Legal Director of the Law, Environment & Animals Program (LEAP) at Yale Law School. Bray has led LEAP’s climate change and animal agriculture litigation work since 2021. From 2014 to 2018, Bray was General Counsel at the International Fund for Animal Welfare. From 2019 to 2021, she served in the same capacity at Mercy For Animals, the world’s largest nonprofit organization dedicated to farm animal protection. At both organizations, Bray was responsible for matters of governance, litigation, and legal risk. She previously practiced law at White & Case LLP, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer US LLP, and Phelps Dunbar LLP. From 1998 to 1999, Bray completed a Fulbright Scholarship in affiliation with the University of the West Indies–Mona’s Institute for Sustainable Development and the Jamaica Environment Trust. She is a 2004 graduate of Stanford Law School, where she received Pro Bono distinction, and a 1998 graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she was a Morehead Scholar and member of Phi Beta Kappa.
