SUMMER FACULTY CHRIS ADAMO JD’04
LINDSAY LEONI BOURGOINE MELP’15
Vice President for Federal and Industry Affairs, Danone North America
Vice President of Programs, Protect Our Winters
Mr. Adamo assists the world’s largest B Corp with strengthening the role of business in driving social and environmental good. He served as chief of staff for President Obama’s White House Council on Environmental Quality from 2015–17. Before that, he led the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry as its staff director for the negotiations and drafting of the 2014 Farm Bill, which included new opportunities for landscape-scale conservation and unprecedented investments in healthy foods. He spent 2017 as a senior fellow at National Wildlife Federation, advising on issues such as sustainable agriculture, climate change, natural resources, and water. He received his BA degree from Kalamazoo College and his JD degree from Vermont Law School.
DON BAUR Partner, Environment Energy and Resources Practice, Perkins Coie Mr. Baur’s practice focuses on public lands and water, energy resources, marine resources, fish and wildlife, wetlands, endangered species, marine mammals, animal welfare, NEPA, and Indian law. He is coeditor of the American Bar Association’s treatises on the Endangered Species Act and Ocean and Coastal Law. He serves on the boards of the National Marine Sanctuary Foundation, the Shenandoah National Park Trust, and the Environmental Leadership Council of the Environmental Law Institute. Prior to joining Perkins Coie, he was General Counsel to the U.S. Marine Mammal Commission and attorney-advisor in the Solicitor’s Office of the Department of the Interior. He is the recipient of the Wings Award for animal welfare advocacy from the Pegasus Foundation and the 1872 Award for national park conservation from the Coalition to Protect America’s National Parks. Mr. Baur received his BA degree from Trinity College and his JD degree from the University of Pennsylvania.
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Protect Our Winters (POW) is a national climate advocacy organization. Prior to joining POW in Boulder, Colorado, she worked on conservation and recreation policy issues for the Appalachian Mountain Club and the Outdoor Industry Association. She completed the Financing and Deploying Clean Energy Certificate Program at Yale University and coached alpine skiing in Lake Tahoe. Ms. Bourgoine received her Master of Environmental Law and Policy degree from Vermont Law School.
ARTURO BRANDT LLM’04 Senior Broker, Latin American Environmental Markets, Tradition Green Mr. Brandt is also an associate at Grupo Vial Serrano, a leading Chilean law firm. He works on sustainability, climate change, climate finance, emissions trading, renewable energy, environmental compliance, environmental legislation and litigation, and market brokerage for the LNG, carbon, and biomass industries. His previous positions include The World Conservation Union — IUCN Environmental Law Centre in Bonn, Germany; Poch Ambiental; and First Climate. He is the President of the Chilean Association for Environmental Law and a member of the Commission for Environmental Law at IUCN. Mr. Brandt received his law degree from the Universidad Diego Portales in Santiago de Chile, and his LLM in Environmental Law from Vermont Law School.
JENNIFER BYRNE MELP’19 Manager, White River Natural Resources Conservation District The White River Natural Resources Conservation District is a citizen-led, local unit of government that addresses natural resource concerns. Previously, she worked for the USDA-Natural Resources Conservation Service, comparing targeted conservation efforts and local and regional water quality improvement programs.
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