Melina Sempill Watts

Melina Sempill Watts’ work has appeared in L,A. Times, Earth Island Journal, Sierra Magazine, New York Times motherlode blog and local venues.

Watts' conservation clients include Safe, Clean Water L.A., Amigo de Los Rios, Santa Monica Mountains Fund, New Consensus (New Green Deal, for office of Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez,) California Association of Resource Conservation Districts and more. In film, she worked for the Kennedy/Marshall Company, Ed Zwick, Peter Horton and Dreamworks.

Watts would like to see an amendment for the Rights of Nature made to the U.S. Constitution within this decade.

Watts’ first novel is Tree.