THE MORRIS K. UDALL FOUNDATION Scholarship and Excellence in National Environmental Policy
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2002/03 ANNUAL REPORT THE MORRIS K. UDALL FOUNDATION Scholarship and Excellence in National Environmental Policy Civility Integrity Consensus THE MORRIS K. UDALL FOUNDATION The U.S. Congress established the ✦ A program for environmental policy Morris K. Udall Foundation in 1992 to research and a program for honor Morris King Udall’s 30 years of environmental conflict resolution at service in the House of Representatives. the University of Arizona’s Udall Morris K. Udall’s career was Center for Studies in Public Policy. distinguished by civility, integrity, ✦ The U.S. Institute for Environmental consensus, and a commitment to the Conflict Resolution, which provides preservation of the nation’s natural mediation and other services to assist environment. Consistent with these in resolving federal environmental values, the Udall Foundation is conflicts. committed to educating a new ✦ The Native Nations Institute for generation of Americans to preserve and Leadership, Management, and Policy protect their national heritage through (NNI), which focuses on leadership studies in the environment, Native education for tribal leaders and on American health and tribal public policy, policy research. The Morris K. Udall and effective public policy conflict Foundation and the University of resolution. Arizona founded NNI, which is an Programs of the Foundation include the outgrowth of the research programs following: of the Harvard Project on American ✦ Annual scholarships and fellowships Indian Economic Development. to outstanding students who intend The Foundation’s educational activities to pursue careers related to the are supported by the interest accrued in Photo credit: Anonymous; The University of Arizona Library, environment. a federal trust fund and by contributions Special Collections, Morris K. Udall Papers, Photograph Files ✦ Annual scholarships and internships from the private sector. Annual to outstanding Native American and appropriations and revenues from fees Alaska Native college students who for services support the U.S. Institute intend to pursue careers in health care for Environmental Conflict Resolution. Cover photo credit: Anonymous; The University of Arizona Library, The Morris K. Udall Foundation is an Special Collections, Morris K. Udall Papers, Photograph Files and tribal public policy. independent executive branch agency. ✦ Parks in Focus, which takes young Congress has authorized the Foundation people into national and state parks to to provide a portion of its education expose them to the grandeur of the funds to support NNI. nation’s natural resources and instill a sustainable appreciation for the The President of the United States environment. appoints the Foundation’s board of trustees with the advice and consent of ✦ An annual conference or discussion of the U.S. Senate. contemporary environmental or ✦✦ Native American issues. 1 2002/03 ANNUAL REPORT Politics and issues come and Photo credit: Anonymous; The University of Arizona Library, Special Collections, Morris K. Udall Papers, Photograph Files go, but in the end, we’ll all be remembered for the way we treated other people. – Morris K. Udall THE MORRIS K. UDALL FOUNDATION Scholarship and Excellence in National Environmental Policy Civility Integrity Consensus REPORT FROM THE CHAIR Terrence Bracy policy or environmental conflict International Studies at Yale resolution. The Native American University. He continues to work with congressional interns spend ten weeks in local primary and secondary schools House and Senate offices, agencies, and in an effort to encourage the purchase in the White House learning how the of recycled paper. In his spare time, federal government operates. Andrew rows for the Yale lightweight The Foundation’s education staff has crew team; serves as president of the created an active Udall Yale Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa; and Scholar/Fellow/Intern alumni group heads-up a non-profit organization, through the use of an email listserv and Orphans Against AIDS, which awards alumni Web site, which allow all of the academic scholarships to children alumni, current awardees, and staff to from Chaing Mai, Thailand, whose communicate on a regular basis. This is parents died of HIV/AIDS. how we let the alumni know what we ✦ Delight Satter, a member of the MO UDALL’S LEGACY are doing and how we learn about their Umpqua Tribe, was a 1997 Native PERSONIFIED BY GIFTED activities. Many of them, I am happy to American congressional intern in the SCHOLARS, INTERNS, report, are involved in work for which office of the late Congressman Bruce they trained. Here are some examples: Vento of Minnesota. Delight is now AND FELLOWS ✦ 1997 scholar Camilla Feibelman the senior public health researcher and policy manager for the UCLA Over the past eight years, some 3,700 earned a degree in environmental Los Angeles Center for Health Policy young men and women have been biology at Columbia University. Research. She was appointed by nominated for Morris K. Udall She then went to the Amazon on a former HHS Secretary Donna Shalala scholarships, fellowships, and Native Fulbright Scholarship to study as one of 12 members of an advisory American congressional internships. commercial fisheries and to develop a committee on minority health. They represent all 50 states; 259 conflict resolution process for rural universities, colleges, and community and urban fishermen who have, at ✦ Dr. Holly Welles completed her colleges; and 66 Indian tribes. From times, shot each other over territorial Ph.D. at UC, Berkeley in 1999 as a these nominees have come 595 Udall rights. Upon her return from Peru, Udall Fellow. She is now working as Scholars, 14 Udall Fellows, and 90 Camilla became national director of an environmental policy specialist in Morris K. Udall Native American the Sierra Student Coalition and now the Environmental Affairs Congressional Interns. The awards to works with environmental justice and Department at Pacific Gas and these exceptional individuals total nearly Spanish language issues in the Sierra Electric Company in San Francisco. $4 million. Club’s media department. Dr. Welles recently participated in a panel discussion on environmental Our undergraduate scholars, who are ✦ 1999 Native American congressional justice for the 2004 class of Udall nominated during their sophomore and intern Deron Marquez was elected to Scholars. junior years, are majoring in fields serve as chairman of his tribe, the San related to the environment or are Native Manuel Band of Serrano Mission ✦ 1999 Native American congressional Americans studying health fields or areas Indians. He was recently re-elected. intern Jessica Roberts is an attorney in related to public policy on Indian His current term expires in 2004. the economic development unit for reservations. The graduate fellows are ✦ 2002 & 2003 scholar Andrew Klaber the Navajo Nation Department of writing their doctoral dissertations on is currently pursuing a BA degree in Justice. the subjects of environmental public Ethics, Politics & Economics and 3 REPORT FROM THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR Christopher Helms A tribal attorney, a major utility throughout the year and take the environmental specialist, a senior public Foundation’s message to professional health researcher, president of the Yale groups all over the country and to Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, a tribal hundreds of colleagues in the federal chair, a national student coalition family. Our enormously dedicated director for the Sierra Club—all Udall employees serve the Foundation well award recipients. and deserve our heartfelt gratitude for their excellent work. Mo Udall said, “It is man’s relationship to his environment and to all other On behalf of the staff, I also thank the living things that will determine our Foundation’s board of trustees and the members of the Institute’s advisory survival and our happiness.” These committee for their hard work, young people are hard at work trying to particularly the chairs of these bodies, ensure those relationships are in balance. Terrence Bracy and Tom Jensen, They and their almost 700 fellow Udall The Udall Foundation activities respectively. scholars, interns, and fellows personify described in this publication cover the overarching purpose of the Udall Finally, our deep thanks go to The approximately a two-year period during Foundation—to carry on the legacy of William and Flora Hewlett Foundation fiscal years 2002-2003. When the Mo Udall. They are doing a wonderful for a $250,000, two-year grant for Foundation began operating almost nine job. support of projects of the Udall years ago, we started near the middle of Foundation’s U.S. Institute for The Udall Foundation has established the federal fiscal year, so our reporting Environmental Conflict Resolution and itself as one of the premier federal times in past annual reports have not to the Bert W. Martin Foundation for scholarship foundations. Its work on coincided with the October to its support of our Parks in Focus behalf of the gifted students described September federal fiscal timetable. Program. above is only part of its mission. We decided to adjust our publication You will read in this publication process to allow us to report on the A HUGE EVENT progress reports on the U.S. Institute fiscal year in subsequent annual reports, On January 17, 2003, the Udall for Environmental Conflict Resolution, which required this “double” issue. Foundation dedicated its own building the Native Nations Institute, and Parks in downtown Tucson. Over 500 people KUDOS AND THANKS in Focus, a program for disadvantaged attended the ceremony to hear children. Without the hard work of a We extend deep appreciation to Congressman Mark Udall (D-CO), dedicated and talented staff and the Foundation Trustee D. Michael Congressman Raúl M. Grijalva (D-AZ), guidance and expertise of a board of Rappoport for contributing the services Arizona Governor Janet Napolitano, trustees composed of leaders of national of the Salt River Project (SRP) to design Arizona Attorney General Terry and publish this report. Our thanks also note, the Foundation would not have Goddard, Tucson Mayor Bob Walkup, go to the SRP staff for their help and achieved such prominence.