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the crit -- Bringing U and I together
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the crit: a critical studies journal Volume 1 Issue 1 Spring 2008
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Kirstin Eidenbach - Editor-in-chief
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Kirstin has studied literature, shiatsu and now law. She entered law school after realizing that she could no longer complain about the wrongs of the world without attempting to change them. Knowing that her strengths lay in the humanities, Kirstin chose law as her avenue for change. At the very least, she hopes to be able to look back on her life and say two things: I spent my life doing what I love and no matter what degree of success I achieve, I tried to change things for the better. Kirstin's passions in law school have found their voice in critical legal studies, critical feminism, victims' rights, Native American law, environmental law, animal law and LGBTQA law.
Following her first year, Kirstin completed two public interest internships, one with the Sierra Club of Arizona and the other with the Chimpanzoo of the Jane Goodall Institute. These internships gave Kirstin a deep appreciation for and commitment to pro bono work that she has carried through the rest of her law school career. The summer following her second year, Kirstin interned with Perkins Coie Brown & Bain in Phoenix, Arizona. During this internship, Kirstin developed a passion for Native American law and political law. She plans to return to Perkins Coie Brown & Bain upon graduation in Fall 2009.
Kirstin is an active member of the community, working with the ACLU and a local environmental organization, Friends of the Clearwater. Within the law school, she has worked to foster an academic and scholarly discourse between students and faculty, and has worked to expose the law school community to issues that have long lain dormant.
When not focused on the law, Kirstin enjoys hiking, poetry, post-modern literature, yoga, solitude in the desert, and her family, both human and four legged.
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Alissa Andrew - Editor
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Alissa will complete her third year of law school in May 2009.
She enjoys travel to disappeared places, and food. She likes to read literature, walk in the forest, and color in coloring books. In her human relationships she requires honesty.
She has lived in Paris and Rennes, France; Maroua, Cameroon; and, Beijing, China. Her favorite place of all the places she has seen is Inishmaan, the middle island in the Aran Islands.
After passing the Bar, Alissa plans on returning for at least a year to China to improve her Mandarin ability, and to understand the effects of intellectual property law regulation (or, the lack of it) for both business and consumer.
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Danielle Alke - Editor
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Danielle is in her 3L year at the University of Idaho. Originally from Helena, Montana, she received her bachelor's degree from Carroll College. Outside of school she enjoys spending time with her family and friends, camping, going to the lake, and playing the piano.
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J.R. Beirens - Web Designer, Art Director
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Trained in the style of the Old Masters...Jim Davis, Charles Shultz, and Bill Watterson,
multi-talented artist J. R. "Wooly" Beirens has studied at the Art Institute of Seattle
and Washington State University. He received his Associates in Animation and a BA in Fine Arts.
He likes to make things up, and strangely can fix any printer, copier, or fax machine,
though ask him to fix your toaster and he will likely end up looking like toast himself.
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Amanda Navarro - Editor
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Amanda Navarro is a 3L student at the University of Idaho College of Law,
originally from Albuquerque, NM. She completed her undergraduate work at the
University of New Mexico with an emphasis in English and Philosophy.
Currently, she is an editorial board member for the crit, and a recent
addition to the College of Law's trial team. Amanda enjoys reading, creative
writing, and cycling, as well as spending time with her family, friends,
boyfriend, and her Bengal feline Fina, who has been with her since undergrad
school.
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Diane Pitcher - Editor
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Diane Pitcher has always been an activist. As a youth, Diane received two letters from Presidents of the United States, and was the only female chosen to represent Idaho at the National Young Leaders Conference in Washington D.C. Diane completed most of her undergraduate work at Brigham Young University, and graduated Suma Cum Laude from Utah State University, where she was President of the Feminist and Liberal Alliance for Gender and Sexual Equality (FLAGS) and Co-President of USU PRIDE! Alliance. Diane and her Co-President successfully lobbied Utah State University requesting that it add 'sexual orientation' to the groups of individuals protected by University employment and housing policies. Through further activism, in 1999 Utah State opened a center on campus dedicated to the needs of its gay students, a first in Utah and most of its surrounding states. Diane was asked to speak before Utah's Congress to promote Hate Crime Legislation and has been interviewed by many media syndicates, including ESPN regarding Gay community issues.
Diane worked as an interviewer-researcher for Johns Hopkins, Duke and Utah State Universities' joint longitudinal study of Alzheimer's, the second larges dementia study in the world. She was a union organizer at Pacific Gateway, where she worked as a Mental Health Therapist in Portland Oregon.
Diane is currently a 3L at University of Idaho College of Law, where she practices in the small business clinic and is concurrently the owner of A 1000 Words. She and enjoys beating her grandparents at pinnacle and letting her friends take her money in Texas Hold'em. Most of all she enjoys spending time with her beautiful wooly companions: Jason the boyfriend, and Edde the dog.
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Danielle Sigmund - Editor
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Danielle Sigmund grew up in San Luis Obispo County, California.
She attended Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo for a year before transferring to Smith College. At Smith, she majored in Psychology and minored in Exercise and Sports Science. She also spent a year abroad at the University of Melbourne in Melbourne, Australia.
Danielle is currently a 3L. She is interested in international human rights and immigration. She has explored international human rights through her work last year as President of the International Law Students Association at the College of Law and through research on prosecuting rape in Sudan. In addition, last summer she interned with the Department of Justice's Executive Office for Immigration Review at the San Francisco Immigration Court. She continues her work in immigration by working in the College of Law's Immigration Clinic.
Danielle also enjoys pro bono work. She has done pro bono work for two public defenders in San Luis Obispo, California. Danielle also participated in the Public Interest Law Group's Alternative Spring Break program last spring by volunteering with the National Veterans Legal Services Program in Washington, DC.
In her spare time, Danielle enjoys running, reading, cross-stitch, and visiting with her friends and family.
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