Fall/Winter 2002 Issue: Volume 1, Issue 2
Authors
Jennifer L. Bradley - Jennifer Lee Bradley received her Bachelor’s Degree from the Saint Cloud State University in Saint Cloud, Minnesota in 1995, and her law degree from the University of Iowa, College of Law in 1998. She is currently an attorney at Stetson Law Offices, P.C., an Albuquerque, New Mexico-based law firm having a substantial Indian law practice. Ms. Bradley’s work focuses on tribal land acquisitions, access to capital, Indian housing and land use issues, and tribal gaming.
Peter Edelman - Peter Edelman is a Professor of Law at Georgetown University Law Center. He served as Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation in the United States Department of Health and Human Service during the Clinton Administration. Professor Edelman is also the author of Searching for America’s Heart: RFK and the Renewal of Hope, published in 2001 by Houghton-Mifflin.
Barbara Ehrenreich - Barbara Ehrenreich is the author of New York Times bestsellers Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America and Fear of Falling. Ms. Ehrenreich is a frequent contributor to Time, Harper’s Magazine, The New Republic, The Nation and The New York Times Magazine.
Global HIV Prevention Working Group - The Global HIV Prevention Working Group —composed of leading experts in public health,clinical care,biomedical,behavioral,and social research, and people affected by HIV/AIDS, and convened by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the Henry J.Kaiser Family Foundation —seeks to generate a greatly expanded commitment to preventing HIV transmission as part of a comprehensive approach to fighting the global epidemic. The world knows much about how to prevent HIV transmission,and both developed and developing countries have demonstrated that existing prevention strategies can have a major impact. This “blueprint for action ”—the first report of the Working Group —provides a road map for rapidly scaling up prevention programs to contain and ultimately reverse the AIDS epidemic. The report reviews the scientific literature on the effectiveness of HIV prevention interventions, identifies obstacles to quickly expanding prevention programs,and makes specific recommendations to prevent millions of infections this decade.
Debora Halbert - Debora Halbert is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Otterbein College in Westerville, Ohio. Her articles on the politics of copyright have appeared in The Information Society, Technological Forecasting and Social Change, and Journal of the Copyright Society of the USA. Her book, Intellectual Property in the Information Age: The Politics of Expanding Property Rights was published in 1999.
Scott Halloran - J.D.Candidate, 2003, Seattle University School of Law.
Timothy J. Humphrey - Timothy J. Humphrey, Sr. holds an M.S.W. from the Warden School of Social Services and a J.D. from the University of Montana. He has worked in Indian law and Indian social services for over twenty years and has taught related courses at Montana State University and Blackfeet Community College. He currently is a Law and Technology Specialist for the Stetson Law Offices, P.C. in Albuquerque, New Mexico where he focuses primarily on tribal housing and tribal environmental issues. He has published articles on Indian housing, on-reservation solid waste management, and tribal regulatory issues.
Richard W. McHugh - Rick McHugh is a staff attorney with the National Employment Law Project (NELP). NELP is a 30-year old organization advocating on behalf of low wage and unemployed workers based in New York City. Mr. McHugh serves as NELP’s Midwest Coordinator and works in Dexter, Michigan. He has been a legal services and labor and employment law attorney for twenty-five years, representing unemployed and dislocated workers, unions, and public benefit recipients before courts and legislatures across the country.
Robin R. Runge - Robin R. Runge is the Coordinator of Program on Women’s Employment Rights (POWER) at the D.C. Employment Justice Center. She has been a domestic violence victim advocate for over ten years and is a nationally recognized expert on the employment rights of domestic violence victims. Ms. Runge was instrumental in passing legislation in California increasing the employment rights of domestic violence victims. Ms. Runge received her J.D. from George Washington University Law School and her B.A. from Wellesley College. She is a member in good standing of the California and Washington, D.C. bars.
Janis Sarra - Janis Sarra teaches corporate law, insolvency law and contracts at the University of British Columbia, Faculty of Law. She was a commercial and labour arbitrator prior to joining the Faculty of Law in 2000, and is a member of the Bar in Ontario. She is also a member of the Law Society of Upper Canada’s Bar Admission Course Insolvency Law faculty. She is former Vice-Chair, Ontario Pay Equity Hearings Tribunal and former Human Rights Director of the Ontario Federation of Labour. Dr. Sarra is co-author of Director and Officer Liability in Corporate Insolvency (Markham & Vancouver: Butterworths Canada Ltd, 2002); author of Restructuring Insolvent Corporations: Creditors’ Rights and the Public Interest (forthcoming, University of Toronto Press); and editor and contributing author of Perspectives on Corporate Governance in Global Capital Markets (forthcoming, University of British Columbia Press). She is a member of The Insolvency Institute of Canada, the European Corporate Governance Institute and the Canadian Law and Economics Association, and researches and writes in the areas of corporate law and commercial insolvency law. Dr. Sarra received her B.A. and M.A. at the University of Toronto, and her LL.B., LL.M., and S.J.D., Faculty of Law, University of Toronto.
Liz Schott - Liz Schott received her J.D. from Boston University School of Law, and is a consultant on welfare policy and an Adjunct Professor at Seattle University School of Law. She has specialized in public benefits as a staff attorney and statewide coordinator for legal services in Washington State and as a Senior Policy Analyst at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities in Washington, D.C.
Rebecca Smith - Rebecca A. Smith is the West Coast Coordinator for the National Employment Law Project (NELP). Her primary focus is on the labor rights of unemployed, immigrant, and "contingent" workers. Born and raised in the Yakima Valley, in the heart of Washington State’s agricultural region, Ms. Smith represented migrant farm workers for over eighteen years before joining NELP in 2000. She believes that lawyers must use all tools available to create a just system where labor rights are respected. She has written, lectured, testified and litigated extensively on issues of importance to low-wage and immigrant workers.
Kellye Y. Testy - Kellye Testy is an Associate Professor of Law and Patricia Wismer Professor at Seattle University. A member of the faculty since 1992, Professor Testy has published numerous articles in the areas of business law, critical legal theory, and social justice. In addition, she was one of the founders of Seattle University’s Access to Justice Institute and the Seattle Journal for Social Justice. Professor Testy received her B.A. cum laude, and J.D. summa cum laude from Indiana University. While at Indiana University, she was the Editor-in-Chief of the Indiana Law Journal and a John H. Edwards Fellow. Prior to entering academia, she clerked for Judge Jesse E. Eschbach of the U.S. Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.
Archbishop Desmond Mpilo Tutu - The Most Reverend Desmond Tutu was ordained an Anglican priest in 1961. Archbishop Tutu rose rapidly in the South African Anglican Church during a time of increasing turmoil caused by apartheid. He was the first black dean of the St. Mary’s cathedral in Johannesburg, the first black Anglican bishop, the first black man to lead the South African Council of Churches, and the first to become bishop of Johannesburg and Archbishop of Cape Town. In all of these positions Archbishop Tutu spoke out against oppression and violence, and for justice, human rights, and peaceful change. In 1984, he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in recognition of his role in creating a new South Africa. In 1996, he was asked by President Mandela to chair the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission. He has also supported the creation of the Desmond Tutu Peace Center in Cape Town, South Africa, which honors the values and visions that have informed his life.
Jana L. Walker - Jana L. Walker (Cherokee/Delaware/Shawnee) has a solo Indian law practice in Placitas, New Mexico where her work focuses on the representation of Indian tribes and tribal organizations on various issues including environmental matters. She also is Of Counsel to Stetson Law Offices, P.C., an Albuquerque law firm with a substantial Indian law practice. In addition, she is the founder and editor of INDIAN FEDREG News, a weekly news source on matters published in the Federal Register that affect tribes. Ms. Walker serves as the Vice Chair of the 2002 National Environmental Justice Advisory Council and Acting Chair of its Indigenous Peoples Subcommittee.
Charles Wilkinson - Charles Wilkinson graduated from Stanford Law School in 1966, practiced with private firms in Phoenix and San Francisco and with the Native American Rights Fund, and is now the Moses Lasky Professor of Law and Distinguished University Professor at the University of Colorado. Wilkinson has written broadly on law, history, and society in the American West. His twelve books include the standard law texts on federal public land law and Indian law. He is the co-author of Land and Resource Planning in the National Forests, the definitive legal study of Forest Service planning. Over the past decade, Wilkinson has moved beyond legal scholarship to a general audience in books such as The Eagle Bird (1992), Crossing the Next Meridian (1992), and Fire on the Plateau (1999). His most recent book, Messages From Frank’s Landing: A Story of Salmon, Treaties, and the Indian Way, a profile of Billy Frank, Jr. of the Nisqually Tribe of Washington, received the 2000 Colorado Book Award.