Board of Directors


MEA's Board of Directors is responsible for setting the general direction of the organization.

Board of Directors

President: Arlen Christenson, Emeritus Professor of Law and Environmental Studies, University of Wisconsin, Madison, School of Law, Madison
Mr. Christenson served for almost twenty years as a member and chair of the Citizen’s Advisory Committee to Wisconsin’s Public Intervenor’s Office.

Vice President: Carol Brown, Brown & Associates, S.C. , Madison
An enrolled member of the Lac du Flambeau Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians, Ms. Brown is a co-founder and managing partner in the only law firm in the United States that is both Indian owned and women owned. Ms. Brown is an expert in Federal Indian treaty rights.

Daniel Idzikowski, Assistant Dean for Public Service, Marquette Law School, Milwaukee
Mr. Idzikowski currently serves as the Assistant Dean for Public Service at Marquette Law School, where he coordinates the School’s public service mission, outreach, service and education efforts. Formerly the Executive Director of a Catholic Charities agency in Wisconsin, he also practiced law on behalf of disadvantaged communities with both Legal Services and the Legal Aid Society of Milwaukee, co-counseling numerous consumer class-actions. As a Jesuit Volunteer in Appalachia, he experienced first hand the effects of environmental degradation on all aspects of a community and looks forward to helping empower local communities to protect and enhance their natural environment.

Larry Wawronowicz, Deputy Administrator of Natural Resources, Lac du Flambeau Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians
Mr. Wawronowicz has a Bachelor of Science from Western Illinois University and a Masters in Biological Science from Southern Illinois University. With a background in fisheries and environmental science, Mr. Wawronowicz has been working in the Natural Resource field for over 25 years. He has been employed by the Lac du Flambeau Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians since 1984 and is currently the Deputy Administrator of Natural Resources.

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