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New Hampshire Advocacy Center Director NANCY L. GIRARD was appointed by Governor Shaheen to the state Integrated Transportation and Rail Advisory Council in May. On June 15, Girard spoke about the role of rail at the EPA Forum on Growth and Transportation in Saco, Me.

KIMBERLY OWENS joined CLF's Maine Advocacy Center as staff attorney in April. Previously, she was an associate attorney in the Juneau, Ak., office of Earthjustice Legal Defense Fund. Owens has worked on numerous issues that have both national and regional significance. They include oil and gas leasing on Alaska's Arctic Slope, overfishing and bycatch guidelines for American fisheries, protections for endangered Stellar's sea lions in the north Pacific, as well as state and federal public lands management. Owens has done extensive environmental work on the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act and the Clean Water Act. She is also well traveled, having worked and lived in London and Capetown, South Africa, and served as a kibbutz volunteer in Israel. She has a B.A. in communications from Temple University, where she received the President's Scholar Award and an Outstanding Achievement Scholarship. In 1995, she graduated magna cum laude from Villanova University Law School.

Spreading the good word has been on the agenda of CLF's Director of Brown fields Initiatives, JAMES A. HAMILTON. On April 5, he spoke to a group of undergraduates at Tufts University's Lincoln Filene Center on careers in nonprofits and described CLF's mission, our role in the region, and our work with other nonprofits in building coalitions to effect change.

This spring, Staff Scientist ANTHONY C. CHATWIN spoke about fisheries management issues to students at Boston's Northeastern University.

CLF Administrative Assistant JODY KNIGHT left in May to join the U.C.L.A. law school. For the past two years, she was a tower of strength for CLF's Communities Project. Her replacement is LAURA SCOTT, who comes to us from Circles, an Internet concierge company in Boston, where she worked as a personal assistant. Scott has also worked at Thompson Island Outward Bound as a development intern, and at Princeton University, her alma mater, as a program coordinator. She holds a Bachelor's degree in religion and has studied at the Aegean Center for the Fine Arts in Greece--where she was the only student!

MICHAEL BUDIMAN joined CLF in May as an accountant. Previously, he was an associate portfolio analyst with Consumer Insurance Services of America. He has also worked as a staff accountant for Video Transfer, and as assistant to a financial consultant at Merrill Lynch. Budiman holds a B.S. in business administration, majoring in finance, from Merrimack College in North Andover, where he graduated with honors.

On May 16, Staff Attorney SETH KAPLAN represented CLF as one of the speakers at a lunch presentation to the Environmental Law Committee of the Boston Bar Association titled "The Future of Public Interest Environmental Law."

In June, CLF's New Hampshire Staff Attorney DAVID MARSHALL decided to call it quits. After taking time off to travel with his family during the summer, he plans to work as a consultant on air pollution and litigation.