Symposium Chairs

Lauren Marshall
Lauren Marshall is a third-year law student with an environmental law concentration at UC Hastings. She served as a panel chair for last year’s symposium and currently works with Olivia Molodanof as Co-Chair of the 15th annual symposium. She became passionate about water supply issues as a Sacramento native and during her studies in Environmental Management at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo. Her law school internships have included Gross & Klein LLP, the Center for Biological Diversity, and the California Coastal Commission. She serves as a Senior Editor for the Hastings Environmental Law Journal, former president of the Hastings Environmental Law Association, and competes on Hastings’ team at the National Environmental Law Moot Court Competition.

Olivia Molodanof
Olivia Molodanof is a third year law student at UC Hastings. She was a Panel Chair for last year's Symposium and is excited to be chairing the event this year with Lauren Marshall. She graduated from Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo with a B.S. in Agricultural Business. Olivia is the Executive Manager for the Hastings Environmental Law Journal and a member of the Alternative Dispute Resolution Team. She recently published an article in the California Water Law Journal regarding SGMA and the Paso Robles Groundwater Basin. This past summer, Olivia was a summer associate at Hunton Andrews Kurth and this semester she is working as a law clerk with Shute Mihaly & Weinberger. Olivia is very interested in the intersection of environmental policy and human rights.

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Holly Locke
Holly Locke is the co-vice chair of the Water Law Symposium, specializing in website updates and maintenance. Holly is interested in anything and everything environmental law, and recently took a deep dive into land use law and policy during her 1L summer internship at the Governor’s Office of Planning and Research in Sacramento. Before law school, Holly earned two bachelor’s degrees: one in International Relations from UC Davis and the other in Journalism: Public Relations from the University of Oregon, and she currently takes any chance she can get to go camping in the Tahoe National Forest or enjoy the beaches of Lake Tahoe.

Kelilah Federman
Kelilah Federman is a second-year law student at UC Hastings College of the Law. She serves as a Staff Editor of the Hastings Environmental Law Journal, Treasurer for the Hastings Environmental Law Association, and Vice President of the Hastings Green Campus Taskforce. During her 1L summer, Kelilah worked in Washington D.C. as a law clerk for Oceana. Kelilah is pursuing the Environmental Law Concentration and is passionate about marine and freshwater ecosystem conservation.

Kelsey Galantich
Kelsey is interested in international environmental law. She grew up near Virginia Beach, Virginia, where she always concerned about the effects of climate change on the Chesapeake Bay and our oceans. She attended the University of Virginia for her Bachelor’s degree, where she double-majored in French Literature and Global Environmental Sustainability. Prior to moving to San Francisco, she lived in Cayenne, French Guiana where she was an English and French language teaching assistant. She plans to learn as much as she can about environmental law in order to continue to help save the bay!

Kaitlin Sherber
Kaitlin Sheber is a second-year law student at UC Hastings College of the Law where she is pursuing her interest in International Environmental Law. She is originally from the Chicago area, and graduated from Loyola University Chicago with a degree in Anthropology. Over the summer, Kaitlin worked as a research assistant for the Legal Writing Department at UC Hastings. This year, she is serving as a Staff Editor on the Hastings Environmental Law Journal and as a TA for Legal Writing classes. In the future, Kaitlin plans to work in the field of Environmental Justice.