Tory Dille

lewis & clark college - law

Tory Dille’s professional and academic interests focus on community-based advocacy for wildlife and wild places. She holds a master’s in science education from Montana State University and a bachelor’s in anthropology and environmental science from Washington University. Though she has lived across the West, she calls Livingston, Montana home. She works for Earthjustice’s Northern Rockies Office and previously worked as a law clerk for the Center for Biological Diversity, focusing on Endangered Species Act litigation to protect imperiled carnivores and their habitats.

Tory’s graduate research centered on bioregional curriculum design and environmental advocacy. She has taught high school biology, led field biology and snow science programs, and coordinated multi-week wilderness trips across the Rockies and the Southwest. She was a founding faculty member and program director for Bozeman Field School and taught at Animas High School in Colorado. She has also worked in informal education, instructing backcountry programs, youth mountaineering courses, and climate leadership seminars. She has held multiple nonprofit outreach and development roles, including development and communications manager for Yellowstone Ecological Research Center, supporting long-term ecological monitoring and wildlife coexistence in the Greater Yellowstone ecosystem. As a grant writer for Earth Law Center, she gained exposure to international environmental law, representing the organization at the United Nations Biodiversity Conference in Colombia.