Palau's Mission to the United Nations: Opportunities

A team of Yale Law School and Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies students, headed by Jane Gao, a second-year J.D. candidate at the Yale Law School, is working on Environmental & Oceans Policy Issues in an effort to identify national and international strategies to assist Palau in the protection of her resources.

Jane Gao is in the second year of the J.D. program at the Yale Law School. Prior to coming to law school, Jane worked with non-government organizations in China on projects related to rural development, conservation, and natural resources management. Jane is interested in using law to help countries formulate creative solutions to international environmental challenges. Jane is a 2002 graduate, magna cum laude, of Yale University, where she majored in political science.

Joshua Berman is a first-year J.D. candidate at the Yale Law School and a first-year student in the Master's Program of the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies. He is interested in issues of biodiversity conservation and worked most recently for the American Museum of Natural History's Center for Biodiversity and Conservation, where he did research on marine fisheries issues. Joshua has also conducted field work with birds in Missouri, Texas, California and Hawai'i. He majored in mathematics at Yale University and graduated in 2002.

Carlos Barrezueta is second-year J.D. candidate at the Yale Law School. In his coursework and activities, Carlos's focus has been international law and development. He has worked at the Institute of Latin American Studies at Columbia University. Carlos has also written political science or history pieces on countries like Ecuador, Peru, Congo, Ghana, South Africa, Spain and the United States. He is a Senior Editor of the Yale Law and Policy Review Journal and an editor at the Yale Journal for Human Rights. He is a 2003 graduate, summa cum laude, of Columbia University, where he majored in Political Science and in History.

Sharon Gulick is a second-year graduate student at the Yale University School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, where she studies coastal and watershed systems in Southeast Asia. In the summer of 2004, Sharon performed research at Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok, Thailand on waste exchange networks in Thai industrial estates and the use and effects of alternative fuels in cement kilns. Prior to attending Yale, Sharon worked at the U.S. Embassy in Bangkok in Public Affairs and performed fisheries research for the U.S. National Park Service in Alaska. In addition, Sharon taught junior high school English in Japan for two years and has traveled extensively in the region.

Berman, Barrezueta, Gulick, and Gao