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Spring 2012 Policy Salon<\/p>\n
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Tuesday, May 1st<\/sup>, 6:30p.m. WISH Classroom on Capitol Hill (RSVP for address) Sandra Young Purohit Areas of expertise: Border issues; energy, including renewable fuels, offshore drilling and Artic Refuge protection; aerial wolf hunting; global warming<\/p>\n Sandra is a member of the government relations team where she currently focuses on federal legislation to ensure that border security is responsive to environmental needs of our border regions. Sandra also works on Artic wildlife issues including efforts to ban aerial hunting of wolves in Alaska and protecting the Artic National Wildlife Refuge. She tracks global warming, renewable fuels, and Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) drilling legislation as well.<\/p>\n Sandra started her environmental career with the National Parks Conservation Association. While in law school she interned at the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) and was a legal fellow with Congressman Ed Markey\u2019s office. Before joining Defenders in October 2007 Sandra was legal counsel for the Alliance to Protect Nantucket Sound.<\/p>\n Sandra Purohit was a Bachelor\u2019s degree in Economics and Environmental Policy from American University. As part of a joint-degree program, Sandra also earned a Master\u2019s in Public Finance and Management and a law degree from the University of Maryland.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Spring 2012 Policy Salon Tuesday, May 1st, 6:30p.m. WISH Classroom on Capitol Hill (RSVP for address) Sandra Young Purohit, Defenders of Wildlife Advocacy Forum Sponsored by The Bryce Harlow Foundation Sandra Young Purohit Government Relations Associate Defenders of Wildlife Areas of expertise: Border issues; energy, including renewable fuels, offshore drilling and Artic Refuge […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14224,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atdevserver.com\/Internsdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atdevserver.com\/Internsdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atdevserver.com\/Internsdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atdevserver.com\/Internsdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atdevserver.com\/Internsdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atdevserver.com\/Internsdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13519\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atdevserver.com\/Internsdc\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atdevserver.com\/Internsdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atdevserver.com\/Internsdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atdevserver.com\/Internsdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nSandra Young Purohit, Defenders of Wildlife
\nAdvocacy Forum Sponsored by The Bryce Harlow Foundation<\/p>\n
\nGovernment Relations Associate
\nDefenders of Wildlife<\/p>\n