ILSA OFFICERS - Indigenous Law Students Association

2007-2008 Officers

President- Melissa Holds the Enemy

Vice President- Rebecca Maki

Treasurer- Ana Machado

Secretary- Christina Bokas

Community Liaison- Rachel Lauesen

LEO Rep- Yvonne Soto

1L Rep- James Schlender

NNALSA Area 4 Representative- Starlyn Tourtillott

Blake Olson, President

Blake is a 2nd year law student with a B.S. in Political Science and a Certificate in American Indian Studies from the University of Wisconsin – Madison. Blake has interned with the National Congress of American Indians in Washington D.C., researched under Professor Ada Deer in the American Indian Studies Department at the University of Wisconsin – Madison, and served as a Summer Associate with Michael Best & Friedrich, LLP in Madison. Blake is from the Stockbridge-Munsee Indian tribe, the only boy of four, with both parents being tribal members. He is also the first of his extended family to pursue an advanced degree and is interested in practicing transactional real estate and business.

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Isela Arellano, V.P.

Isela is a 3rd year law student pursuing a joint degree in Latin American studies,with a particular focus in indigenous human rights and land rights in the Americas. She expects to finish her MA in May 2007, and her JD in August 2007. Interests in areas of practice include labor, immigration and Indian law. She has been a clerk at the Madison firm of Hawks Quindel Ehlke & Perry, S.C. since the Spring of 2005.

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Janel Perry, Secretary

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Tsilos Kosbab, Treasurer, Webmaster, and
1L Representative for class of 2007

Tsilos is a 3rd year law student who is focusing on general practice and Federal Indian Law. She is Oneida and Menominee and has BA's in Psychology and American Indian Studies from the University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee (2003).

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Rachel Lauesen, Community Liaison

Rachel was born and raised in Alaska and is the oldest of two girls. Her father is Lac du Flambeau Chippewa and her mother is Jewish. She graduated from the University of Alaska Fairbanks with a degree in History and Political Science. After graduation Rachel worked for Housevalues.com as an agent coach. Frustrated by her shrinking cubicle size and realizing that she could go further,Rachel decided to attend to University of Wisconsin Madison after a visit the the school. Rachel is interested in practicing Sports Law, Intellectual Property Law, Indian Law, and/or Labor Law. Her interests include dancing, reading, cooking, and spending time with family and friends.

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Dan Cornelius, LEO Representative (Spring '07)

Carl Williams, LEO Representative (fall '06)

Carl Williams is a third year law student at the University of Wisconsin. Carl will be receiving his J.D. degree in December of 2006. He was recently the Chair of Legislative Affairs for the Associated Students of Madison.

Carl is currently a fellow the Liberty Tree Foundation for the Democratic Revolution. Carl was a computer applications developer and instructor for fourteen years in the Boston area prior to law school. Carl was also member of the Coordinating Committee of United for Justice with Peace from 2002 - 2004. He participated in the International Solidarity Movement's Freedom Summer (2002) in the West Bank (Occupied Palestine). More recently Carl has worked as a student attorney for the Wisconsin Innocence Project and the Legal Defense Program of the University of Wisconsin.

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Starlyn Tourtillott, IL Representative