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Anthony Austin
Golden Gate University School of Law '11
 
Anthony Austin is currently earning his LL.M in Environmental and Natural Resources Law at the University of Denver Sturm College of Law and clerking with Earthjustice in their Rocky Mountain Regional Office. Anthony graduated from Golden Gate University School of Law in 2011 with Highest Honors. While in law school, Anthony served as a Panel Co-Chair for the 2010 California Water Law Symposium and as the Symposium Chair for the 2011 California Water Law Symposium. As a law student, he worked with GGU's Environmental Law and Justice Clinic, Earthjustice's California Regional Office, Magistrate Judge Edward Chen in the Northern District of California, and the California Attorney General's Office in the Natural Resources Section. Anthony was also awarded the 2009 ABA Diversity Fellowship in Environmental Law. He was the President of GGU's Environmental Law Society, the 2010 Symposium Edition Editor for GGU's Environmental Law Journal, and a participant at the National Environmental Law Moot Court Competition. Prior to law school, Anthony volunteered in Costa Rica at a sea turtle conservation project called La Tortuga Feliz.
 

Priscillia de Muizon
UC Berkeley School of Law (Boalt Hall) '06
 
Priscillia de Muizon is a Research Attorney at the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco. She was previously an associate at Morrison & Foerster in the Land Use and Environmental Law practice group. She earned her J.D. in 2006 from Boalt Hall, where she served as an Articles Editor for the Ecology Law Quarterly and helped found the annual student-organized Water Law Symposium. In 2005, Priscillia published an article entitled "'Meaningfully Distinct' Waters, the Unitary Waters Theory, and the Clean Water Act (South Florida Water Management District v. Miccosukee Tribe of Indians, 541 U.S. 95, 2004)." 32 Ecology L.Q. 417-451 (2005). Prior to law school, Priscillia was a paralegal for three years, primarily assisting with the financing of construction and energy projects nationwide. She grew up in the Napa Valley and attended U.C. Davis as an undergraduate.
 

Susan Gilbert-Miller, Ph.D.
University of San Francisco School of Law '11
 
Susan Gilbert-Miller graduated magna cum laude from the University of San Francisco School of Law. She served as Chair of the 2010 California Water Law Symposium, which received the American Bar Association's Section of Environment, Energy and Resources Law Student Project of the Year Award and now serves as a Water Law Symposium Trustee. Susan obtained a Ph.D. from the Institute of Development, Policy and Management (IDPM), Department of Economic and Social Sciences, University of Manchester, England, with comparative research on international water policy. Her many years working on behalf of the environment include employment as Director of Environmental Services for the Chicago Manufacturing Center; Senior Consultant for SAI Global; and policy analyst for the Las Virgenes Municipal Water District, Calabasas, California. She has been a Law Clerk for the Department of Justice, Environment and Natural Resources Division in Washington D.C.; U.S. EPA's Office of Regional Counsel, Region 9; and the Natural Heritage Institute.
 

Beth Koh
UC Hastings College of the Law '06
 
Beth Koh is an associate in Wendel, Rosen, Black & Dean LLP's environmental practice group. Koh has clerked for the Natural Resources Defense Council where she was involved with National Environmental Quality Act (NEPA) and Endangered Special Act (ESA) claims, worked on pesticide testing and mercury release issues, and assisted with wilderness preservation programs.  She also clerked for the California Office of the Attorney General in the Natural Resources Section, assisting in litigation for state agencies, such as the Department of Forestry, State Water Resources Control Board, Air Resources Board and Department of Pesticide Regulation. Koh earned her J.D. from University of California, Hastings College of Law in San Francisco (2007) and her B.A. in molecular and cellular biology from University of California, Berkeley (1997).  She is a member of the Regional Parks Botanic Garden, California Native Grasslands Association, California Native Plant Society and California Oak Foundation.
 

Erin Stagg
UC Berkeley School of Law (Boalt Hall) '07
 
Erin Stagg graduated from Boalt Hall in 2007 where she served as co-chair for the Third Annual California Water Law Symposium.  She continues to support the California Water Law Symposium.
 
 
 
 

Lucas Williams
Golden Gate University School of Law
 
Lucas Williams graduated from Golden Gate University School of Law in 2008. He is currently an attorney at the Environmental Law & Justice Clinic, where he represents low-income and communities of color adversely affected by pollution. In law school, Lucas clerked for numerous public interest law firms, including Lawyers for Clean Water and the Center for Food Safety.

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