Student Animal Legal Defense Fund (SALDF) - Law School - Lewis & Clark
Past Officers
Officers & Coordinators 2012-2013
Past Officers
Officers
Co-Director: Kelly LaToza Levenda
Kelly is a 3L from Chicago that came to Lewis & Clark Law School to study animal law. She has taken part in Animal Law Reviewas a Source Checker and Associate Editor, and currently clerks for the Animal Legal Defense Fund’s Animal Law Program. Kelly is particularly interested in farmed animal protection, promoting veganism, and educating the public and attorneys about animal law. Kelly loves spending time with her husband, two cats, Mori and Ollie, and Border Collie, Bernie.
Co-Director: Taylor Duty
Taylor is one of the few true Portland natives and was born and raised a stone’s throw from Lewis & Clark Law School. When not in school she enjoys running, cooking, reading trashy sci-fi novels and playing with her dog and three chickens. She is particularly interested in the modern commercial farming and food industry and the way that animals are selectively commodified on a global scale. She hopes to incorporate this interest into some form of litigation work and to join the campaign to make criminal laws more effective for animals.
Project Coordinator Chair: Diane Lenkowsky
Diane hails from sunny Arizona and moved to Portland to start law school with her boyfriend and their two rescue animals, Thumbs and Mylie. When she’s not at school, she’s typically cooking, singing, doing yoga, or finding new vegan restaurants and food carts in the Portland area.
Pro Bono Chair: Melissa Young
Melissa is a second year law student and worked as a veterinary technician for five years before coming to Lewis and Clark. This year, she will be serving as Form and Style Editor for Animal Law Review. She worked as a legal extern for the Equal Justice Alliance during the summer of 2012. In her free time, she loves going out for delicious vegan food, volunteering as a caregiver at Animal Aid, and spending time with her husband and four cats.
Outreach Chair: Mitzi Bolanos
Mitzi is part of the first Animal Law LLM class at Lewis & Clark. She moved to Portland with her rescued pit-bull type dog, Bubba, who has inspired her to use her legal career to advocate against breed discriminatory laws and other forms of breed discrimination. Shortly after moving to Portland, she began volunteering with Washington County Animal Services in a pilot program to rehabilitate and rehome a group of pit bull type dogs seized as evidence in an animal cruelty case. There is still too much that Mitzi would like to see and do in Portland before she graduates in May.
Treasurer: Lauren McDonald
Lauren has always loved animals since an early age. She has been vegan for over five years and loves to cook. In her spare time, Lauren enjoys spending time at home with her partner, cat, and two rabbits, playing video games, eating, and watching the squirrels on her back porch. Some of her major accomplishments include watching an entire season of 24 in one day, and being on TV for being entirely too good at singing in a fake rock band.
Secretary: Lora Dunn
An East Coast native, Lora is now a Portlander at heart and a 3L focusing on Animal Law. She has been fortunate to clerk for the Animal Legal Defense Fund’s Criminal Justice Program and to intern at the Oregon Humane Society. She enjoys yoga, hiking, teaching piano, and impromptu trips to the coast.
Project Coordinators
Student Animal Law Conference Coordinator: Amy Jesse
Conference Volunteer Coordinator: Lauren McDonald
Speaker Series Coordinator: Megan Brodie
Mentor Program Coordinator: Taylor Duty
2012
Co-Director: Jaclyn Leeds
Jaclyn is a 3L from New Hampshire graduating in December 2012 with an emphasis in Animal Law. She has enjoyed clerking for the Animal Legal Defense Fund and writing for the Animal Legal & Historical Center, and is currently clerking for Youth, Rights & Justice. She tested onto Animal Law Review as a 1L source checker, and has served as Symposium Editor since 2L year. Jaclyn enjoys hiking with her rescue pup (we rescued each other!) Ebony and munching on fresh fruit with her quaker parrot Houdini.
2011 - 2012
Co-Director: Michelle Pawliger
Co-Director: Holly Gann
Student Animal Law Conference Coordinator: Diane Lenkowsky
Conference Volunteer Coordinator: Lauren McDonald
2010 - 2011
Co-Director: Jessica Su Johnson - jessicaj@lclark.edu Interests: captive wildlife, endangered species, farm animal regulatory affairs, and animal legislation and the political process
Co-Director: Stefan Heller- soheller@lclark.edu Interests: wildlife protection, and animal legislation and lobbying
Coordinator Chair: Jenny Keatinge - jkeatinge@lclark.edu Interests: international wildlife law and policy, cruelty prosecution, and equine law
Pro Bono Chair: Lindsay Tallon - lindsaytallon@gmail.com Interests: wildlife protection, and animal legislation and policy
Outreach Chair: Mark Jordan - mjordan@lclark.edu Interests: animal rights, civil liberties, activism, wild animal protection
Secretary: Holly Gann - hgann@lclark.edu
Treasurer: Meera Gajjar - mgajjar@lclark.edu Interests: cruelty prosecution, and farm animal policy and welfare
Project Coordinators
Student Animal Law Conference Coordinator: Jaclyn Leeds - jleeds@lclark.edu
Interests: farm animal welfare, creative advocacy approaches in international animal welfare & genetic engineering of farm animals
Conference Volunteer Coordinator: Nick Stack - stack@lclark.edu
Bird Save Program Coordinator: Santiago Vasquez - svazquez@lclark.edu
Interests: horse protection domestically and abroad, international protection of endangered/threatened species & of course birds, especially around campus
Speaker Series Coordinator: Michelle Pawliger - mpawliger@lclark.edu
Interests: equine protection, and animal legislation and lobbying
Mentor Program Coordinator: Aurora Paulsen - aurora.paulsen@gmail.com
*If you are a Lewis & Clark SALDF member interested in becoming a Coordinator, please contact the Coordinator Chair with your project proposal.
We are located in Wood Hall of Lewis & Clark Law School.
10015 SW Terwilliger Boulevard Portland, Oregon 97219
General Email: saldf@lclark.edu
2009 - 2010
Co-Director: Matthew Dominguez, matthewd@lclark.edu Interests: Domestic animals & wildlife protection, prosecution of animal cruelty
Co-Director: Tara Zuardo, tzuardo@lclark.edu Interests: International wildlife law & policy, animal testing/cruelty
Pro Bono: Stefan Heller, soheller@lclark.edu Interests: Wildlife protection, animal legislation and lobbying
Outreach: Megan Lemire, mlemire@lclark.edu Interests: Factory farming, wildlife, and animals in entertainment
Primary Conference: Natalie Calta, njcalta@lclark.edu Interests: Prosecution of animal cruelty, wills and trusts for animals, and family law.
Assistant Conference: Holly Rudolph, rudy2gen@hotmail.com Interests: Equine law and equestrian issues, criminal prosecution, domestic violence
Treasurer: Brett Hartl, bhartl@lclark.edu Interests: Wildlife protection, especially endangered & marine species. Issues surrounding illegal trade of animals.
Secretary: Jessica Su Johnson, jessicaj@lclark.edu Interests: Domestic animal abuse protection, animals in family law and estate planning, education on responsible pet guardianship.
Coordinators
Animal Law Speakers Series: Jenny Keatinge, Jkeatinge@lclark.edu Interests: International wildlife law & policy, prosecution of animal cruelty, equine law
Legal Observing & Activism: Mark Jordan, mjordan@lclark.edu Interests: Animal rights & legal standing, cruelty legislation & prosecution, wildlife
2008 - 2009
Co-Director: Claire Tonry
Co-Director: Tara Zuardo
Pro Bono: Emily Elison
Outreach: Stephanie Wallick
Conference Coordinator: Megan Lemire
Treasurer: Brett Hartl