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Kenneth Walther

Lake Forest College


Kenneth is 3L at Chicago-Kent in the Environmental and Energy Law certificate program. Originally, from Ohio, he earned his Bachelor's in Systems Biology and Environmental Studies from Case Western. He is passionate about the intersection between environmental law and civil rights, and since starting at Kent he's been heavily involved with organizations in those fields, including serving as an executive board member with the school's Environmental Law Society, National Lawyers Guild Chapter, and the Lambdas, Kent's LGBTQ advocacy organization. For the past year, Kenneth has been a Baum fellow with Kent's Environmental Law Clinic, working to help nonprofits and community organizations in the Chicago area with various environmental issues. This summer he also interned with a joint pro-bono project between the clinic and the environmental division at Baker McKenzie Chicago. Currently, he serves as a student coordinator at Kent's Public Interest Resource Center.