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moving forward; she enjoys the amount of time she gets to spend in the field as part of the effort to protect these beautiful places. Kristin Leigh Campbell JD/ MELP’15 celebrated three years as a Law Fellow with the Institute for Governance and Sustainable Development (IGSD) in August 2018. While the main office for IGSD is located in Washington, D.C., Kristin moved back to Vermont in October 2017, settling in Montpelier. Her work specializes in connecting
SEVERAL CL ASS OF 2013 ALUMNI SHOWED UP IN ROCHESTER, N.Y., TO AT TEND THE RETIREMENT PART Y FOR RICHARD SAL A JD/MELP’13. FROM LEF T TO RIGHT: T YLER WARD JD/MELP’13, KRYSTIL SMITH JD/ MELP’13, RAE KINKEAD JD’13, RICHARD SALA JD/MELP’13, K ATIE THOMAS JD/MELP’13, AND VICE DEAN FOR STUDENTS AND PROFESSOR OF LAW BETH M c CORMACK.
20145TH REUNION Whitney Standefer whitneystandefer@gmail.com Cristina Mansfield cristinaleila@hotmail.com Megan M. Hunter JD/MELP’14 was recently quoted in the Toledo Blade related to her work representing the Lake Erie Foundation as amicus curiae in a landmark lawsuit to clean up Lake Erie. Lindsay Speer MELP’14 is now working for Alliance for a Green Economy on the HeatSmart CNY and Renewable Heat Now campaigns. Both campaigns promote the rapid conversion of building heating and cooling systems from climate-intensive fossil fuel combustion to efficient, renewable-ready, electric air source and ground source heat pumps. Lindsay additionally continues her work as a
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consultant for the Onondaga Nation on environmental and indigenous rights issues. She recently won a campaign to get fish advisory signs posted in multiple languages around the Onondaga Lake Superfund site. Her article “From Blight to Beautiful: Renovating an Urban House By and For Community” was recently featured in the 2018 Eco-Building issue of Communities Magazine.
2015 Crystal Abbey cnabbey88@gmail.com Alona Tate alona626@yahoo.com Ariana Barusch JD’15 is a litigator with the Utah Attorney General’s Office and is involved in all cases relating to Utah’s public lands. They have a number of high-profile cases
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science with international law and policies on short-lived climate pollutants (HFCs, methane, tropospheric ozone, and black carbon) and the implications and impacts of climate change in the Polar Regions. Since returning to the Green Mountain State, Kristin has utilized some of her non-work hours to rekindle her relationship with dance, taking ballet, tap, modern, and jazz classes at a local studio and performing as frequently as she can. Catherine Craig MELP’15 and Steve Coteus JD’14 were married in Vershire, Vt., on July 7, 2018, four years after meeting at VLS. Steve and Catherine live in Montpelier, Vt., where Steve is an associate at Tarrant, Gillies & Richardson and Catherine leads the Vermont Green Business Program at the Vermont Department of Environmental Conservation. Ellen Czajkowski JD’15 has returned to Vermont after a year at the U.S. Department of Justice, Environmental Crimes Section, where she was a law clerk on the Volkswagen criminal case. She now lives in Montpelier and enjoys hiking and visiting breweries with her roommate Kristin Leigh Campbell