SUMMER FACULTY CHRIS ADAMO ’04
DON BAUR
Vice President for Federal and Industry Affairs, Danone North America
Partner, Environment Energy and Resources Practice, Perkins Coie
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.
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.
ABIGAIL ANDRÉ Staff Attorney and Assistant Professor, Environmental Advocacy Clinic, Vermont Law School Professor André joined the Environmental Advocacy Clinic after ten years of environmental litigation with the U.S. Department of Justice’s Environmental Enforcement Section, where she led a diverse docket. From 2010 to 2016 she helped litigate the case against BP and others arising from the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, which led to the largest environmental damage settlement in U.S. history. She received the Attorney General’s Distinguished Service Award in 2016 for her work on the Deepwater Horizon trial team. Prior to joining VLS, she taught at the University of Denver’s Sturm College of Law. Professor André received her JD degree from the Ohio State University Moritz College of Law and her BFA degree from the University of Colorado, Boulder.
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JENNIFER BYRNE MELP’19 Manager, White River Natural Resources Conservation District The White River NRCD provides conservation assistance, outreach, and education for Orange and Windsor counties in Vermont. From 2011–2016, Ms. Byrne worked and volunteered for the USDA-Natural Resources Conservation Service in over 15 states. She is a Fellow in the Environmental Justice Clinic at VLS, managing the R.E.J.O.I.C.E. Project (Rural Environmental Justice Opportunities Informed by Community Expertise), an iterative policy creation effort developing Environmental Justice Policy for the state of Vermont. Ms. Byrne received her Master of Environmental Law and Policy degree from VLS and her BS degree from Oregon State University.
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