On November 1, 2018, the Environmental Law Program (ELP) held its Fourteenth Annual Enviromentors Event at Café Julia. This event provides a unique opportunity for students to engage with attorneys across various sectors of the environmental law community.

Each year, participating “Enviromentors” sit down with interested law students in short five minute “speed meetings.”  After the event, ELP matches the students up with a mentor based on their feedback, for at the very least, a one-on-one lunch if not a more extensive mentoring relationship. The goals are to spark our law students’ thinking about career options and to match students with an Enviromentor who can be a guide and resource for the student’s future environmental law career. Many of the connections made through this event have helped to further the environmental law careers of students.  

ELP extends a special thank you to all the participating mentors, students, and ELP faculty for making Enviromentors an engaging, fun, and successful networking event!

 

Fall 2018 Enviromentors:

Cameron Black, Energy Analyst, Hawaii State Energy Office

Doug Codiga, Member, Schlack Ito LLLC

Stuart Coleman, Hawaiian Islands Manager, Surfrider Foundation

Mark Fox, Director of External Affairs, The Nature Conservancy, Hawaiʻi Program

Ian Garrod, Legal Fellow, Department of Land and Natural Resources, Division of Conservation and Resources Enforcement

Aarin Gross, Senior Program Manager, Policy & Management at Conservation International

Ian Hirokawa, Special Projects Coordinator, Department of Land and Natural Resources Land Division

Lea Hong, Hawaii State Director, The Trust for Public Land

Kristen L. Johns, Attorney-Advisor, NOAA Office of General Counsel, Pacific Islands Section

Jarrett Keohokalole, House District 48 Representative

Rebecca Dayhuff Matsushima, Director of the Renewable Acquisition Department for Hawaiian Electric Company, Inc.

Samantha Ruiz, Utility Analyst, Hawaii Public Utilities Commission

David Sakoda, Marine Law Specialist, State of Hawaii, Department of Land and Natural Resources*

Wayne Tanaka, Public Policy Advocate, Office of Hawaiian Affairs

Laura Thielen, Hawaii State Senator, 25th District

Kylie Wagner Cruz, Associate Attorney, Earthjustice, Mid-Pacific Office*

Colin Yost, Chief Operating Officer, RevoluSun 

*Not in attendance, but mentoring