Michelle Pawliger is currently a second year law student at Lewis and Clark Law School. She is studying animal and environmental law. She became interested in animal law while working for her college animal activist organization at the University of Florida. Michelle moved from Florida to Oregon for Lewis and Clark’s animal law program. In her first year of law school she became the Speaker Series Coordinator for SALDF and a member of Animal Law, the animal law journal at Lewis and Clark. She also interned for the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) in their government affairs department. She is now a 2011-2012 Co-Director for SALDF and a Submissions Editor for Animal Law.  

Outside of school, Michelle works with HSUS and Oregonians for Humane Farms to end the use of battery cages for egg-laying hens in Oregon.