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• Researched recent proposed changes to SEC S-K regulations.• Constructing database for empirical employment law research dating back to nation’s founding.• Analyzing census data using Stata.

• Researching and communicating results on issues of environmental law including CERCLA, FIFRA, CWA, CAA, TSCA, tribal law, and administrative and civil procedure and rulemaking questions.• Processing FOIA requests.

• Prepared draft opinions deciding motions to dismiss.• Observed cases across stages of litigation from bond hearings to sentencings and one civil jury trial.

• Drafted CERCLA complaint and response to motion for interlocutory appeal on an administrative law issue.• Researched issues of law and fact, including administrative law and civil procedure, for enforcement and defense cases involving complex environmental statutes such as CAA, CERCLA, and CWA. • Drafted memoranda for attorneys summarizing research and proposed strategy.• Observed strategy meetings with client agency and settlement meetings with opposition.

• Managed all aspects of the Institute’s academic operations including: class scheduling, communicating with faculty, deans, and the registrar, budgeting, and running our certificate program (advise certificate students on class choice, conduct strategic planning and program assessment, organize graduation festivities, etc.).• Conducted creative planning, advertising, and execution for numerous events including the Ethics Film Series.• Collaborated with colleagues, professors, and researchers to bring Environmental Ethics to the Institute as a new program area.• Provided communication, accounting, and planning support for the Human Rights and Cover-Ups and Exposés programs.• Advised on strategies for increasing outreach to students including using social media, targeting specific student groups, and improving language use. • Organized team building activities for the staff.• Designed graphics for promotional materials.• Organized and participated in all levels of an international workshop on Payments for Ecosystem Services including: communicated with scholars and practitioners from sixteen different nations, facilitated visa procurement, managed logistics throughout the workshop, and collaborated with a working group to analyze and present on the evolution in discourse surrounding South Africa’s Natural Resource Management Programs.• Assisted in planning and conducting a research trip to Havana, Cuba where ten students, two professors, and two staff members studied the dynamics of reconnection under the previous administration’s Cuba policy. • Advised on the creation of a Living-Learning Community sponsored by the Institute. Organized and led a service-learning trip to Puerto Rico for this group.• Doubled certificate enrollment in first year.• Managed over seven hundred thousand dollars in budgets working with fellow staff, professors, and university grant staff.

• Conducted and summarized research on liberal arts curriculum reform for faculty members.• Conducted and summarized research on J- and May-Term programs leading to the creation of Duke University's Spring Breakthrough program.• Managed citations for The Little Big Number: How GDP Came to Rule the World and What to Do about It (Dirk Philipsen, Princeton University Press).• Managed daily office operation including event promotion, data input, and faculty meeting preparation.• Directed incoming phone calls, providing information about the Institute’s programming and referring callers to sources to better direct their inquiries.

Excavated, logged, and processed dozens of findings as part of an international team working on this Early Iron Age-Archaic site.

Recorded and took notes of Introduction to Environmental Science and Policy, Economic Principles, and Environmental Law and Policy lectures for students with disabilities.

Authored a comprehensive report detailing the expected impact of hydraulic fracturing in North Carolina using an objective, mathematical approach.

• Testified before the Chicago City Council in favor of proposed plastic bag ban. The Council adopted the ban and it is now in effect.• Authored an Op-Ed on the importance of closing loopholes in Clean Water Act, published in The Rock River Times.• Collaborated with City of Chicago policy writers in the drafting of a City Council resolution calling on President Obama to close the loopholes in the Clean Water Act created by the Rapanos v. United States and SWANCC v. Army Corps of Engineers Supreme Court decisions.• Managed office operations as the only employee in the office. • Canvassed for photos in support of keeping Lake Michigan clean as part of a photo petition campaign.

• Directed incoming phone calls, providing information about the Institute’s programming and referring callers to sources to better direct their inquiries.