Topic: Alumni
Alum Phil Schiliro profiled in the New York Times
Lewis & Clark Law School alum Phil Schiliro is profiled in the New York Times for his appointment to President-elect Barack Obama’s administration. Schiliro will serve as Assistant to the President for Legislative Affairs. Before joining the Obama team, Schiliro was chief of staff to Rep. Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) and the House Oversight Committee and a policy director for former senator and Obama advisor Tom Daschle (D-S.D.).
“Allies and opponents describe him as having one of the sharpest legislative minds in Washington. Fresh out of law school in the early 1980s, he took his first job on Capitol Hill and never left,” writes Michael Falcone.
New York Times (New York, NY) The New Team: Phil Schiliro
Alum earns Vichrow Award for anthropological research
Selena Jorgensen ‘08 has been awarded the Rudolph Virchow Award for best undergraduate paper, given annually by the Society for Medical Anthropology. The award recognizes works that are deemed to reflect, extend or advance critical perspectives in medical anthropology. Jorgensen, a sociology/anthropology major, is now studying at Harvard Medical School.
In her senior thesis, The Little Clinic that Could: Neoliberalism, Structural Violence, and Community Resistance in Portland, Oregon, Jorgensen details the socio-economic effects of a local health clinic struggling to serve the uninsured. She writes:
“Unable to obtain sustainable funding, the clinic is in danger of being absorbed into the very system its directors had previously resisted. It must adopt bureaucratic policies to qualify for federal funding, which concomitantly entails accepting notions about patient prioritization that prevent the most vulnerable community members from accessing health care. Following the transition of this community clinic into a public entity reveals how the guidelines under which federal clinics function are in opposition to the purpose for which they are created and funded. If these federally funded clinics are unable to provide quality care for the uninsured, then what are they structured to do? How do these federal clinics represent political agendas and long‐standing historical processes which continue to reproduce inequality and enforce normalized standards upon vulnerable patient populations?”
Video: Alum vies for national animation prize; voting closes Tuesday, Oct. 28
Adan Vielma CAS ’08 is a finalist in a national animation competition, and viewers can vote for his film from 8:00 p.m. Monday, October 27 through 8:00 p.m. Tuesday, October 28.
Vielma’s short, “Go Nuts Animation,” was named one of 29 finalists in the Nicktoons Network Animation Festival, which features the best animated shorts films from around the globe.
Each day in October, the Nicktoons website features a different short for which visitors can vote. At the end of the month, the video with the most votes will win the Viewer’s Choice Award. To vote for Vielma’s video, visit the Nicktoons website by Tuesday, October 28.
Vielma, who won a different national video competition last year, put more than 30 hours of work into the two-minute submission. “Go Nuts Animation” takes a fun look at college life, following a student who spends a fortune decking out his dorm room.
“What differentiates my work, and what probably made it stand out to the contest judges, has to be its complexity,” Vielma said. “Each minute of my animation is filled with ten minutes of entertainment; one view is just not enough. I added so many details and filled even the smallest of corners. It has to be that attention to detail and sense of humor that the judges appreciated.”
Currently in its fifth year, the Nicktoons Network Animation Festival is the largest event of its kind in North America. The Festival gives finalists like Vielma exciting opportunities to present their work on a national stage, giving animators access to television and Internet audiences and offering cash and prizes for winners.
“Having just graduated from Lewis & Clark, I’m finding so many directions to take my education,” Vielma said. “Animation and video work are two directions I’m pursuing right now, and they’ve brought me personal enjoyment and public recognition. I’m really happy with what I’ve been doing, but I’m always looking forward to new challenges and projects.”
Alum Julian Dautremont-Smith discusses colleges’ progress toward carbon-neutrality goal
As the associate director of the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education, Julian Dautremont-Smith ‘03, promotes sustainability in all aspects of the higher education sector including governance, operations, curriculum, and professional development. He recently offered his perspective on the progress colleges are making toward meeting goals outlined in the American College and University Presidents Climate Commitment, (ACUPCC) a project designed to make the higher education sector carbon neutral.
Though less than one-half of the institutions met the September milestone for submitting reports on their greenhouse-gas emissions, Dautremont-Smith is confident that the data gathered from public reports will provide this environmental cause with a sufficient stepping stone: “Our sense of it is this is a long-term commitment, multi-decade for most schools, so we’re not going to fret about being behind a little on this particular deadline.”
See the progress Lewis & Clark is making toward its ACUPCC goals and learn about the institution’s greenhouse-gas report online.
Inside Higher Ed (Washington, D.C.) In Quest for Carbon Neutrality, Late out of the Gate
Law School alum debuts first book
Michele Longo Eder J.D. ‘79 has embraced roles in her life that defy convention: a lawyer known for her dedication to her clients, a Democrat who was selected by the Bush Administration for a seat on the U.S. Arctic Research Commission, a mother and self-proclaimed proud fisherman’s wife. As she wraps up her legal career, she now adds a new role to her diverse identifiers: author. Her book, Salt in Our Blood: A Memoir of a Fisherman’s Wife, debuts this month, detailing her family’s life on the Oregon coast and the tragic fishing accident that took her son. The Oregonian recently profiled Eder and her rich, multi-faceted life.
Lewis & Clark Law School ranks high in public interest law
Lewis & Clark Law School was ranked 9 of 195 among institutions educating public interest lawyers. More than 12 percent of Lewis & Clark students enter government positions and around 12 percent pursue public interest law.
National Jurist (Arlington, Va.) Debt salvation
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