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2008-2009 NAELS STUDENT GOVERNING BOARD
CO-CHAIRS & REGIONAL REPRESENTATIVES
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CO-CHAIR Craig Altemose, Harvard [bio]	CO-CHAIR Patience Burke, U of MD [bio]	REGION 1 April Quinn, Vermont Law [bio]
REGION 2 Joshua Goldman, Cardozo [bio]	REGION 3 Diana Krevor, GWU [bio]	REGION 4 VACANT
REGION 5 Emily Babcok, William Mitchell[bio]	REGION 6 Whitford Remer, Loyola (LA) [bio]	REGION 7 Emily Droll, U of Iowa [bio]
REGION 8 VACANT	REGION 9 Daniel Freedman, Loyola (CA) [bio]	REGION 10 Clarke Thurmon, L&C [bio]

Craig Altemose is a leader of the youth climate movement. He is a Co-Chair of the National Association of Environmental Law Societies, a member of the Executive Committee of the Sierra Student Coalition, and a founding member and Co-Coordinator of Massachusetts Power Shift. Craig was as a 2007 Energy Action Summer Fellow, and served on the student steering committee of Power Shift '07, the first National Youth Climate Conference. Most recently, he was the lead organizer of the Massachusetts Power Shift conference,

Currently, Craig is a joint-degree student at Harvard Law School and the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, where he just completed his second-year of a four-year M.P.P./J.D. program. At Harvard, he is on a Presidential Task Force established by Harvard's President to set emissions reductions targets for the university. Craig graduated from Eckerd College in 2006, where he served as student government president.

Patience has been playing in the water since she was in diapers. She grew up in eastern North Carolina and in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia, and was accustomed to enjoying at whim fresh fish and shellfish straight from the river and sound. However, by the time she was a college student at William and Mary, those were no longer comforts afforded by many bodies of water. With the Chesapeake Bay as a classroom, she became aware of the now dire state of our waters. Patience is now dedicated to the preservation of water quality and quantity, with a special focus on CAFOs, urban stormwater, and land use. In the coming year, she will create a nation-wide water program to help NAELS students address pressing water issues in their own watersheds.

April’s love for the environment stems from growing up on the California coast and frequent camping trips to Yosemite National Park. She received a business degree from Cal State University, Long Beach in 2003. For a year and a half after college she attempted and failed to get a business of her own off the ground. Through her education and work experience April learned that corporations don’t always take their impact on the environment seriously. She is determined to help solve this problem. April is currently at the University of Baltimore Law School, and will graduate in the spring of 2009. She is a member of University of Baltimore’s Environmental Law Society and Women’s Bar Association.

Joshua Goldman's passion for the environment arose primarily due to his upbringing in rural Minnesota. Like many Midwest adolescents, Josh and his friends usually gathered outdoors, and spent a lot of time hiking, biking, and camping in nearby nature preserves. After graduating from Wayzata High School in 2000, Josh attended the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he received a Bachelors of Science with Honors in Philosophy and History of Science. Armed with a college degree, Josh decided to spend a year dedicated to public service as an AmeriCorps / VISTA for National Student Partnerships in Philadelphia. Currently, Josh is finishing his 2L year at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law in New York City, where he is concentrating in International and Comparative Law. This summer, Josh is interning with the Environmental Law Centre of the World Conservation Union located in Bonn, Germany. Josh can be reached via email at joshua.goldman007@gmail.com.

Diana Krevor became interested in environmental advocacy as an undergraduate at NYU. Through coursework in environmental economics and urban planning and design, she studied the growth patterns of cities and their surrounding areas. She wrote her undergraduate honors thesis on urban sprawl and smart growth initiatives. She recently discovered life beyond large northeastern cities after hiking in the Pacific Northwest and Israel. Diana is excited to work with so many inspiring and passionate law students from around the country.

Emily Babcock is a soon-to-be 2L at William Mitchell College of Law. She has been actively involved in the National Association of Environmental Law Societies and the Environmental Law Society at William Mitchell since beginning law school. In addition to campus organizations, Emily has volunteered with the Friends of the Boundary Waters Wilderness, where she primarily conducted research of issues related to sulfide mining, timber sales, clear cutting, and non-native invasive species affecting Northern Minnesota. This summer Emily looks forward to studying abroad in Prague, where she will take a comparative environmental law course, and then returning home to work for the Northstar chapter of the Sierra Club for the remainder of the summer.

Whitford (Whit) Remer is a rising second year law student at Loyola University New Orleans. His appreciation for the environment grew out of his time in the mountains of north Georgia where he was a boarding student at the Darlington School in Rome, Georgia. Upon graduation he went on to double major in Political Science and Geography at Florida State University. While living in Tallahassee, he became interested in the unique waters of the Floridan aquifer. He found himself wanting to purse both law and urban planning. Acting on these interests, he began looking at law school programs that offered this type of specialization.

On a side note, Whit is a huge supporter of live music. He vehemently preaches its enabling power to bring people from all over the community together to enjoy harmonic bliss. He turned these sentiments into action by helping direct a yearly non-profit music festival in Tallahassee called Down on the Farm. Armed with a passion for the environment, visions of planning, and love of music and its accompanying culture, he looked westward. Directly down Interstate 10, on practically the exact same parallel, he found a program at Loyola University New Orleans that offered a joint degree in Common Law (as opposed to Civil code, which is the law of the land in Louisiana) and a Masters Degree in Urban and Regional Planning at the University of New Orleans. From there, he became active in the Loyola Environmental Law Society and Student Bar Association where he severed in leadership roles.

Emily Droll is a second year law student at the University of Iowa College of Law. Emily is a student writer for the Journal of Corporation Law and is the President of the Environmental Law Society at Iowa. Her major areas of interest are environmental issues surrounding agricultural law and policy, both in the United States and internationally. She is very excited to serve NAELS as the regional representative for region seven and is looking forward to the upcoming year.

Daniel Freedman is an evening law student at Loyola Law School, Los Angeles, and is employed as an environmental and LEED Accredited green building consultant. Previously, Daniel has worked with a host of organizations and companies from which he has gained a broad and sophisticated understanding of environmental policy, sustainability and clean technologies. Daniel has worked with organizations such as the D.C. based Environmental and Energy Study Institute, Heal the Bay, and the World Business Council on Sustainable Development.

Daniel graduated from the University of California Berkeley in 2004 and received a Bachelor of Science degree in Conservation Resource Science. Environmental and Economic sustainability were the bedrock of his education at Cal, and remains his major focus today. After graduating with high marks, Daniel attended the University of California Los Angeles where he received his Master of Arts degree in Urban Planning. His studies focused on environmental policy and analysis. At UCLA he focused heavily on emerging technologies, and their impacts on urban infrastructures and the environment