CELP invites students of law, economics, geography and other environmental disciplines to spend a summer or semester working on projects to protect the rivers and aquifers of western Washington and the Columbia River basin.  Interns are essential to our work.


We also invite environmental professionals and retirees to consider interning with CELP.  For more information about our programs, please give us a call.


Care about water?  Please join us!


Our current 2008 interns:


        •  Sean Hackett



 


CELP’s Internship Program  -  2008


  Center for

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Sean Michael Hackett


Gonzaga School of Law

Class of 2011


Growing up in the arid Southwest (Alamosa, CO) helped me to garner a profound respect for our fragile and finite water supply.  I was fortunate enough to have a family that instilled a conservation ethic within me at a very young age. Because of this, I studied Political Science and Environmental Policy at Fort Lewis College in Durango, CO and focused my undergraduate research on the negative environmental impacts of energy exploration and extraction on tribal lands throughout the Southwest.  Over the years I have become intimately involved with several nonprofit organizations and have worked for organizations whose topical areas of focus ranged from national wilderness legislation to addressing river toxics and childhood lead poisoning here in Spokane. 

I am currently a second year student at Gonzaga University School of Law and am pursuing an emphasis in Environmental Law.  I was fortunate enough to receive a Gonzaga Public Interest Law Project (GPILP) grant which afforded me this incredible opportunity to serve the public’s interest in water resources.  When I am not buried in mountains of books, I like to get out and bike, hike, kayak and camp in the mountains of the Inland Northwest.  Unless organizations like CELP are able to effectively advocate for responsible water resource management practices, the consequences could prove to be dire.  I am honored to apply my skills and passion toward CELP’s efforts and look forward to dedicating my career and life to environmental law.