TIME 100: Amy Cordalis
November, 2024
Amy Bowers Cordalis is many things: an attorney, a mother, a conservationist. But before all that, she was a member of the Yurok Tribe of California who grew up fishing on the Klamath River. Bowers Cordalis served as her tribe’s general legal counsel in its charge to dismantle four hydroelectric dams that were choking the river and the Indigenous people that depend on it. She helped negotiate with the dams’ owner, PacifiCorp, to seal the $550 million deal to demolish the dams and let the river heal. The dam removal project, the largest of its kind in history, was completed…
