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The Advocacy Clinic

Making A Difference By Directly Serving Activist Organizations

ANE environmental studies students, Sarah Harpster and Katie Stoner, help Keene businesses reduce carbon.
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The Environmental Advocacy and Organizing Program’s Advocacy Clinic is part of a faculty-supervised service-learning course for students where they work on real projects for real organizations.

Clinic participants provide pro bono advocacy work on behalf of Clinic clients—organizations at the local, state, national or international level working for environmental protection, corporate accountability, democratic governance and social justice. We pursue purposeful results for clients that gain access and provide voice in the decision-making process, change power relations and serve the public interest. The Clinic brings the community into the classroom and the classroom into the community.

Grounded in their substantive knowledge of environmental science and advocacy skills gained in their first year at Antioch New England, Clinic participants provide advocacy research, public policy critiques and analysis, strategic planning, issue and corporate campaign materials, action planning, and communications and membership development plans to Clinic clients.

“We have worked with University programs before, but have never experienced such a well-rounded team of high caliber student work and professionalism, with direct and active supervision. The work produced by the Clinic students, including international legal and environmental filings, shareholder letters, financial research, and communications with experts, organizations and others was essential to the success we achieved in maintaining Western Shoshone and indigenous rights issues at the forefront of social responsibility in the extractive industries sector. ...What began as our 'wish list' for corporate engagement and international advocacy strategies for the semester was not only completed, but in some areas surpassed, leaving us with a strong foundation for moving forward over the summer and into the next year." — Julie Ann Fishel, Director, Land Recognition Program, Western Shoshone Defense Project

Last Updated: 11/10/08