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Saturday, September 26, 2009

Environment - "Hoosier Environmental Council founder heads IU Mauer law school program"

Dawn Hewitt reports in the Bloomington Herald-Times in a story ($$) that begins:

Carolyn Waldron is the new director of the Indiana University Maurer School of Law Environmental Law Program.

Among her credentials: She was a founder of Hoosier Environmental Council two decades ago and was a vice president of the National Wildlife Federation. She recently led an initiative to conserve and restore Oregon’s coastal and ocean resources.

She brings to her job experience in environmental policy at the local, state and national levels. She led the wildlife federation’s national wetlands conservation policy program and helped secure passage of the Everglades Restoration Act — the world’s largest ecological restoration project — to conserve the vast Florida wetland ecosystem, according to an IU news release.

Waldron is not new to Bloomington. She has bachelor’s and master’s degrees from IU and is a graduate of Leadership Bloomington. Her position at the law school is supported through a grant from the Nina Mason Pulliam Charitable Trust as part of its commitment to help Indiana’s land trusts and environmental education and advocacy groups.

Down to Earth posed some questions to Waldron vie e-mail. Here are her answers:

QUESTION: You’re not a lawyer. Why did you want to direct the environmental law program at Indiana University?

ANSWER: I have been involved in environmental policy for over 25 years as a professional and volunteer. Public policy and law are interrelated. (Public policy guides decisions and action for social change, and these policies are embodied in environmental laws and judicial decisions.)

I believe I can continue to make a meaningful difference here at the Maurer School of Law and in the conservation community, and I am delighted to be working with such a talented group of people. There are substantial conservation opportunities here at IU and in Indiana, and I look forward to building a great program and growing partnerships that help solve today’s environmental challenges.

Posted by Marcia Oddi on September 26, 2009 03:29 PM
Posted to Environment