Olivia Bensinger

Olivia is from Troy, Alabama and a 2014 graduate of the University of Alabama. Olivia received a degree in Interdisciplinary Studies from New College, for which she focused on Ecological Economics. She also majored in Spanish and minored in Latin American Studies. While at UA, Olivia was involved in the Environmental Council, working primarily to bring local, organic food to campus dining halls. Immediately after graduation, Olivia attended Harvard Law School, where she served as a managing editor of the Harvard Environmental Law Review. Right after law school, Olivia spent a little over two years as a litigation associate at Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP in New York City. Then she moved to Huntsville to clerk for Judge Lynwood Smith in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Alabama for about eighteen months. Olivia has most recently moved with her husband, Andrew Key, and two dogs, Rosie and Ellie, to Hanover, New Hampshire, where she works as an attorney at Shaheen & Gordon, P.A.