Tribal charitable donation helps fund NARF summer law clerk program
Each summer, the Native American
Rights Fund hosts a summer clerkship
program, a 10-12 week program for
second-year law students.
(American Indian law certificate and
environmental law and policy). She
obtained her Bachelor of Science degree,
majoring in conservation and resource
studies and minoring in global poverty
and practice, from the University of
California-Berkeley.
Law clerk projects consist mainly of
legal research and writing. The projects
are extremely challenging because NARF
practices before federal, state and Tribal
forums, and because most of its cases
- whether at the administrative, trial or
appellate level - are complex and involve
novel legal issues.
of Law, where she is president of its
(emphasis in federal Indian policy) from
NALSA group, an Environmental Law
Willamette University. He has been a judi
Program student representative and the
cial intern for the Honorable W. Michael
pro bono project director. She received
Gillette of the Supreme Court of Oregon
and a high school tutor for students at
Chemawa Indian School.
her Bachelor of Arts degree in political
science from Carleton College. She has
been a legal fellow for the Washington
Lauren Frinkman (Cochiti Pueblo)
Frinkman is a third-year student at
the University of California-Los Ange
les (UCLA) School of Law, where she
is president of its NALSA chapter and a
board member of the National Lawyers
Guild. She obtained her Bachelor of Arts
degree, majoring in religion and minoring
in German, from Colorado College. She
has been a law clerk with the Legal Aid
Foundation of Los Angeles and a public
interest fellow with the American Civil
Liberties Union of Colorado.
This past year, the law clerk program
was supported by the Confederated Tribes
of Siletz Indians through the Siletz Tribal
Charitable Contribution Fund, University
of Denver-Sturm College of Law and the
Ungar Foundation/Smith, Shelton and
Ragona LLC.
The clerks who worked with us last
summer were:
Environmental Council and in the office
of Sen. Maria Cantwell. From 2007-2009,
Anchorage Office
Elizabeth Hutchinson
she was assistant director for the Lakota
People's Law Project. She also has been
Hutchinson is a second-year student
a middle school teacher at the Red Cloud
at the University of Denver-Sturm College
Indian School in Pine Ridge, S.D.
of Law, where she is a representative of
the Natural Resources and Environmental
Law Society. She received a Bachelor
Washington, D.C., Office
Ryan Ward (Cowlitz Tribe)
Ward is a third-year student at the
University of Washington School of Law,
where he is vice-president of the NALSA
Jacqueline Jampolsky (Cherokee)
Claire Newman
chapter and a member of the Trustees for
Jampolsky is working toward (2013)
a joint J.D./Ph.D. degree at CU Law
Newman is a third-year student at
the University of Washington School
Alaska pro bono project. He received
a Bachelor of Arts degree in history
of Arts degree from the University of
California-Davis, where she majored in
international relations and minored in
comparative literature. She participated in
the 2011 Alternative Spring Break - DNA
Legal Services. She worked in the Alaska
office as part of Seattle University’s Study
Law in Alaska Program.
Oregon Coast Aquarium brings the shore to your door through outreach
Look for aquarium
education van in
a school near you
as new season of
outreach continues
NEWPORT, Ore. - A new season
of outreach is under way as Oregon
Coast Aquarium educators travel all over
Oregon in their colorful education van,
bringing marine science to grade schools
throughout the region.
The van, made possible by grants
from the James F. and Marion L. Miller
Fund of the Oregon Community Founda
tion, Trust Management Services LLC
and the Jackson Foundation, is painted
with a mural of marine life found at the
aquarium. Upcoming outreach destinations
include 18 weeks in counties throughout
Oregon and Southwest Washington.
In December, the aquarium outreach
team took its program to Toledo Elemen
tary School, where enthusiastic students
learned to do the “Whale Wiggle” and
saw how whales use their baleen to feed,
similar to how we might “squish water
through our teeth.”
“We love the aquarium,” said Bob
Shindelman, principal of Toledo Elemen
tary School. “Our students ask lots of
questions and answer lots of questions.
They really know a lot about the marine
environment here.”
Shindelman said classes from the
school visit the aquarium often to see
what’s new.
Because of the many places where
students aren’t close to the ocean and
can’t experience it, the Aquarium Educa
tion Department “takes the shore to their
door.” Each school year, the aquarium’s
outreach program goes on the road to
reach those students in an effort to foster
awareness of the ocean.
“Perhaps I’m a little biased being
from Eastern Oregon, but I really want
to get more schools from the east side of
the state involved,” said Jenni Remillard,
aquarium outreach coordinator. “These
are kids who are much less likely to be
able to visit the aquarium and it is great
to be able to reach them.”
Remillard said there are still a few
openings for schools in Eastern Oregon.
The assemblies are age-appropriate
with “Flippers, Fur and Fun,” “Shark
Shenanigans,” “Tales of Whales" and “No
Bones About 'Em” for kindergarten through
second-graders and “Dressed for Success,”
“Sense-ational Sharks,” “What About
Whales?” and “From Tubefeet to Tentacles”
for third- through fifth-grade students.
Through a multimedia production,
costumes, bones, pelts, skulls and life-
sized inflatable sea animals, students
discover how marine life has adapted
to life in the Pacific Northwest ocean
environment. All outreach programs are
aligned to meet the Oregon Department of
Education standards in science and math.
The Aquarium Outreach Team will
visit schools in the following counties.
For schedule information about schools
near you, call the aquarium at 541-867-
3474, ext. 5301.
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Tillamook and Clatsop counties: Jan.
10-12
Marion County: Jan 24-26
Coos and Curry counties: Feb. 7-9
Multnomah and Clackamas counties:
Feb. 14-16
Columbia and Washington counties:
Feb. 28-March 1
Douglas County: March 13-15
Lane County: March 20-23
Eastern Oregon: April 3-5
Hood River, Umatilla, Union and
Wasco counties: April 10-12
Klamath, Jackson and Josephine
counties: April 24-26
Columbia Gorge: May 1-3
Deschutes, Crook and Jefferson coun
ties: May 15-17
For more information, visit the
aquarium’s website at aquarium.org or
call 541-867-FISH.
Courtesy photo by Cindy Hanson, Oregon Coast Aquarium
Jenni Remillard, aquarium outreach coordinator, shows students at Toledo Elementary
School how whales use their flippers for steering. Oregon Coast Aquarium educators
travel all over Oregon in their colorful education van, bringing marine science to
grade schools throughout the region.
Imprints Print Shop is proud
to announce the recent upgrade
of its screen printer and the addi
tion of an embroidery machine.
We now can offer custom hats
in addition to a long list of other
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team or association? Promoting
a big event, holiday or occasion?
We can imprint your name or logo
onto thousands of different pro
motional products and apparel.
Imprints Print Shop
Manager: Tammy Viles
1520 NE Highway 101
Lincoln City, OR 97367
Office: 541-996-5550
Fax: 541-996-5551
E-mail: imprintslc@charter.net
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