Environmental Law Society
Our MissionThe mission of the Environmental Law Society at New England School of Law (ELS) is to promote discussion and awareness of environmental legal issues in the areas of public and private environmental law, to promote discussion and awareness of environmental issues, and to provide opportunities for alliance building among current and past students of New England School of Law. |
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Executive Board 2007–2008
AMAAN HUSAIN, Activities Coordinator
Amaan is a graduate of Boston College, and is currently a second-year law student at New England School of Law. Amaan began his work with the environment in high school where he led several student-run conservation groups. He continued this work in college helping to organize campus-wide recycling drives. While in college, he worked with university administration to make environmental impact and conservation official policies of the school. With an eye towards making such changes in policy on a larger scale, he began to study environmental law. All of this led him to NESL, where he currently serves as the Activities Chair of the ELS.
SUSAN WALTON, Co-Chair
Susie was born in Michigan, but moved to Arizona for high school. She attended Knox College in Galesburg, Illinois and continued to move east for law school. Susie has always been interested in environmental work, especially the area of animal welfare. She thought she would make a good vet, but got side-tracked in college becoming a philosopher and political science major instead. Using that degree, she decided to focus on law school and, once there, found she could work my way back into the environmental field, this time as a lawyer. She has come to truly enjoy environmental law work and hopes to find a position that would allow her to feel that she is making a positive difference in that field. Susie is currently in her final year at NESL, set to graduate in May 2008.
GLENN WEGRZYN, Treasurer
Glenn is a second-year student at NESL. Originally from a little town called Agawam, Massachusetts, Glenn graduated from Agawam High and went on to the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. While there, he double majored in Geology and Earth Systems, and volunteered a good deal for Massachusetts Public Interest Research Group. He is interested in practicing law in a governmental capacity upon graduating. To promote the changes needed to help the environment, Glenn believes that we all need to work together, including everyone from the bottom to the top.
CODY WILLIAMS, Events Coordinator
Hailing from the Midwest, Cody received a Bachelor?s degree in
Political Science at Indiana University along with a minor in
environmental management. He has been interested in environmental and
animals rights issues since childhood. After high school, Cody enlisted
in the United States Marine Corps and spent five years serving in the
United States, Western Europe, Africa and the Balkans. While a student at Indiana
University, he was a member of the Council for Environmental Stewardship.
He also led the Paper Reduction Work Group, which was instrumental in
achieving paper reductions on campus. In the future, he plans to practice
environmental law and play a role in policy-making on a government
agency level. Cody is a second-year student at NESL.
IVA ZIZA, Co-Chair
Iva is in her final year at NESL. Last year, she served as the Activities Chair of the society. Originally from Novi Sad, Serbia, Iva graduated from high-school in Prague, Czech Republic. She moved to the United States in 1997, and in 2001 graduated from St. John?s College in Annapolis, Maryland, with a double major in philosophy and history of mathematics and science. Iva has always been interested in conservation and environmental issues. In college, she worked on a horseshoe crab conservation project at the University of Delaware College of Marine Studies. While at NESL, she internet at a local environmental justice non-profit organization, Alternatives for Community and Environment, and authored a law review note discussing permitting of offshore wind energy facilities. Iva hopes to some day practice as an environmental lawyer. In the meanwhile, she will commence a clerkship at the Connecticut Appellate Court in June 2008.
