Distinguished Graduate Nicole Cordan

Before attending Lewis & Clark, Nicole Cordan ’95 was a policy analyst with the Center for Clean Air Policy in Washington, D.C., where she testified before Congress and drafted Clean Air Act amendments, key sections of which were passed into law.  Following graduation she was instrumental in launching Lewis & Clark’s environmental litigation clinic, the Pacific Advocacy Center, spending two years raising funds and serving as PEAC’s first staff attorney.  Nicole spent several years as regional director and organizer for the National Wildlife Federation and, for the past decade, as the policy and legal director for Save our Wild Salmon, where she has dedicated herself to protecting and restoring salmon and steelhead in the Columbia and Snake River Basin.  She has been a tireless leader in the effort to remove dams from the river systems in order to protect threatened and endangered fish stocks.