Olivia Filbrandt '17, Roxanne Strohmeier '16 Featured in Dateline UC Davis
Olivia Filbrandt '17and Roxanne Strohmeier '16 were featured in Dateline UC Davis as part of an article on the UC Davis Emerging Leaders in Policy and Public Service (ELIPPS) program for graduate and professional students.
This summer, Filbrandt and Strohmeier are part of a group of six students who are working with a variety of state and regional government agencies, and a nonprofit public-benefit organization, as the first participants in the ELIPPS Fellows program. The interns are being paid with funds provided by the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, College of Engineering, School of Law and School of Veterinary Medicine. Internships run through mid-September.
Filbrandt is a legal intern with the Governor's Office of Planning and Research, where her projects include reviewing and developing administrative regulations having to do with the California Environmental Quality Act. She's focusing on sustainable transportation and a review of a comprehensive update of the state's general plan guidelines for local governments.
Strohmeier is interning as a law clerk for the state Department of Health Care Services. Assigned to the office of legal services, administrative litigation team, she is doing research related to Medi-Cal policies, and she's assisting DHCS attorneys in drafting legal documents, reviewing evidence, and developing strategies and tactics for pending litigation related to the enforcement of Medi-Cal policies, statutes and regulations.