WILLAMETTE UNIVERSITY — Norma J. Paulus Professor of Law Robin Morris Collin has been appointed as the senior advisor to the administrator for environmental justice at the Environmental Protection Agency, advising administrator Michael S. Regan as the agency pursues environmental justice and civil rights. In a press release from the EPA, Regan recognized Morris Collin as “one of the nation’s foremost experts and a lifelong advocate for overburdened communities.” A leader and scholar in the areas of sustainability, energy and environmental justice, Morris Collin was one of the first law professors to teach sustainability courses in a U.S. law school. She spent 10 years teaching at the University of Oregon School of Law and nearly 20 at Willamette Law. “Climate change is the single greatest environmental challenge of our time. Environmental justice is the way a multiracial, multi-ethnic society engages that challenge,” Morris Collin says. “I am honored to serve in this role to protect our land, air, and water and, as part of that work, lift up underserved communities so that we may all thrive together.”