Helen Holden Slottje is a Harvard-educated attorney and Goldman Environmental Prize ('Green Nobel') laureate who founded RegenerativeLaw—a constitutional and theological-legal framework grounded in a single structural insight: sovereignty exists in dimensions that extractive systems cannot perceive.
Her landmark work helping New York communities achieve a statewide ban on hydraulic fracturing through municipal home rule demonstrated that legal architecture could operate at jurisdictional levels entirely invisible to the extraction apparatus. Communities won not by defeating industry arguments on industry terrain, but by inhabiting a sovereignty the industry had no coordinates to contest.
That discovery didn't end with fracking. It became a question: if home rule can protect a community's ground from extraction, what protects an individual's conscience from institutional overreach? RegenerativeLaw is the working answer—applying constitutional religious freedom principles and foundational legal doctrine to recognize and defend the individual's sovereignty over their own interior life and vocation.
Helen's fracking victory earned international recognition: she was invited to the Obama White House, received the Goldman Environmental Prize at a San Francisco ceremony, was featured in a PBS documentary narrated by Robert Redford, and received the Pete Seeger Activist Award and New York State Assembly's Outstanding Citizen Citation—all in 2014. She has since spoken at Berkeley, Columbia, the European Parliament, and the United Nations, and delivered a TEDxWWF address in Brussels.
RegenerativeLaw provides ministerial with individuals whose sincerely held religious convictions conflict with institutional requirements, organizations seeking governance architectures that don't reproduce hierarchical capture, and practitioners navigating the gap between high performance and institutional recognition.
Note: RL is not a law firm. Helen provides legal services exclusively through Slottje Law, PLLC, and only under the terms of a written engagement letter. She is admitted to practice in New Hampshire, Massachusetts, and New York, and does not render legal advice on behalf of RLI.
