Maya van Rossum

Maya van Rossum

Maya K. van Rossum is the Delaware River Keeper, championing the rights of over 17 million people to a free-flowing, clean and healthy Delaware River and its tributary streams. In 2013, she was on the original petitioners in the landmark Robinson Township vs Commonwealth of Pennsylvania case. That case led to a watershed victory that strengthened the state’s Environmental Rights Amendment. Since 2002, she has served as an adjunct professor and director of the Environmental Law Clinic at Temple Beasley School of Law, which she founded. The Green Amendment, securing our right to a healthy environment was published by Disruption Books 2017. She can be reached at the Delaware River Network in Bristol, PA.