Brent Godfrey

Brent Godfrey is the Staff Attorney at Finance New Orleans, where he supports FNO’s mission of developing climate-resilient affordable housing, clean energy, and community wealth building opportunities across New Orleans. Recently, Brent taught at Loyola Law School as a Westerfield Fellow, where he taught first year students legal writing, and designed courses on Law and Solidarity Economy and Law, Spirituality, and Social Change.  In previous chapters of his life, he has been a wilderness leadership educator with the National Outdoor Leadership School (NOLS) and a firefighter with the New Orleans Fire Department. He is also a veteran of the US Navy. Originally from Southern California, Brent lives in New Orleans with his wife, Rachel. He loves gathering people, losing himself in a good book, and trusting that time in nature will fix whatever needs fixing.