Faculty - Laurel Angell
Laurel Angell is an adjunct professor at Washington College of Law where she teaches Environmental Law and the U.S. Congress in the Environmental Law Summer Session. Ms. Angell is Legislative Staff to the Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests, and Public Lands within the U.S. House of Representatives, Committee on Natural Resources where she works primarily on federal public lands legislation. She has also served as Policy Advisor to the Full Committee. Ms. Angell came to the environmental field quite naturally, having grown up in Yosemite National Park. She has worked in a range of jobs that inform and affect different aspects of environmental law and policy, having worked for the National Park Service at Grand Canyon and Shenandoah National Parks, for Senator Cantwell of Washington in the U.S. Senate, and with Defenders of Wildlife, a non-profit environmental advocacy group. Ms. Angell also helped establish, and served as counsel to, the Coalition of Concerned National Park Service Retirees—a group active in national park advocacy. Additionally, she has international environmental experience as a Peace Corps Volunteer in the marine national parks of the Seychelles Islands, and in the International Development Program at The Carter Center. Ms. Angell received her B.A. from Mount Holyoke College and her J.D. and M.S.E.L. from Vermont Law School. Ms. Angell also enjoys her other life as a youth soccer coach and still makes frequent trips to the national parks, forests and monuments, which fall under her subcommittee’s jurisdiction, to be reminded of what her work is all about.