Rebecca Bratspies is a Professor of Law at the CUNY School of Law and Director of the CUNY Center for Urban Environmental Reform. Her scholarly research focuses the relationship between citizens and their government, particularly the regulatory state. She has published widely on questions of human rights, environmental democracy, and food justice. Her environmental justice comic books (Mayah’s Lot, and Bina’s Plant) have been used in classrooms around the country, adopted by state environmental agencies, and made into a video. Professor Bratspies serves on EPA’s Children’s Environmental Health Protection Advisory Committee, and is a member-scholar with the Center for Progressive Reform, and with the Environmental Law Collective. She blogs with The Nature of Cities. She has served on the ABA Standing Committee on Environmental Law, and as an advisor to the CGIAR. She is past Chair of the American Association of Law Schools Section on the Environment. Cryptocurrency is a new interest.