Sustainable Land Use Project

Although originally from New York City, Stephen spent most of his formative years across cities in the U.S. South and in rural Jamaica. Due to this upbringing, Stephen finds it easy to feel at home wherever there are healthy green spaces. 

Stephen is a Navy veteran and, after his service, he attanded Oregon State University, where he majored in public policy with a minor in economics. After graduating, he worked at Oregon Housing and Community Services as a research analyst, specializing in homeownership data and policy. Stephen's experience in this role fostered within him a deeper appreciation for how the law shapes our built and natural environments, which eventually led him to Oregon Law. 

During his 1L summer, Stephen externed with the Honorable Judge Kamala Shugar at the Lane County Circuit Court. He also contributed to Professor Marty Wilde's research on military environmental exposures and their impacts on veterans' compensation claims. 

Now a 2L, Stephen continues in his second year of fellowship with the Sustainable Land Use Project and is serving as Secretary of Oregon Law's Black Law Student Association. 

Claire is from the San Francisco Bay Area, where she grew up with a love of the outdoors and a fully stocked bookshelf. Inspired by summers at Lake Tahoe and road trips to national parks, she studied at the University of California, Berkeley, and earned a B.S. in society and environment with a concentration in U.S. environmental management and policy and a minor in conservation and resource studies. At Berkeley, Claire discovered her passion for connecting and explaining complex scientific and legal concepts. Outside the classroom, she conducted agroecological research on dry farming techniques and was a leader of Cal's improv comedy group. After graduating, she moved to Eugene to study environmental law. 

During her 1L summer, Claire worked with the Center for Food Safety, an agricultural and environmental nonprofit. In her 2L summer, Claire was a summer law clerk at the American Forest Resource Council, a nonprofit dedicated to promoting sustainable timber production, forest management, and wildfire prevention. 

Since starting at Oregon Law, Claire has served on the Dean's Committee of Community and Inclusion and been deeply involved in the Civil Justice Clinic. She currently serves on the Dean's Student Advisory Council. When not hunched over a laptop, Claire enjoys getting lost in a good book, embroidery, playing D&D, paddleboarding, gardening, and making others laugh.