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Kern Council Goverment Workshop on Transportation
Thursday May 3rd 6:00pm
@ Delano Civic Center
1009 11th Avenue
Smart Valley Places Workshop On Housing
June 2012, Exact date TBD
@ CRPE Delano Office
Contact Valerie for details or to RSVP
--free and open to the public--
CALENDAR OF EVENTS

Smart Valley Places Workshop On Housing
June 2012, Exact date TBD
@CRPE Delano Office
For more information or to RSVP contact Valerie
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Adams Broadwell Joseph & Cardozo
South San Francisco, CA


Richard Toshiyuki Drury is a partner at Lozeau | Drury LLP where he represents non-profit organizations, individuals and labor organizations in environmental matters. From 1993 to 2003 he was legal director and attorney for Communities for a Better Environment (CBE).  CBE is a non-profit urban environmental health and justice organization with offices in San Francisco and Los Angeles and over 10,000 members throughout California. Richard served as chair of the United States Environmental Protection Agency’s National Environmental Justice Advisory Committee Pollution Trading Work Group, a position that he held from 1996 to 2000. Richard is a 1990 graduate of the Yale Law School, where he received the Raphael Lempkin Prize for outstanding work in the field of international human rights, and where he served on the editorial board for the Yale Journal of Law and Liberation. He holds a B.S. degree in chemistry and a B.A. degree in philosophy from the University of Illinois, where he graduated Phi Beta Kappa, magna cum laude. Richard is also an adjunct professor of law at University of California Boalt Hall School of Law in Berkeley.  Following graduation from law school, he served as a law clerk to Chief Judge Thelton Henderson of the United States District Court in San Francisco. Prior to working for CBE, he was an environmental law fellow at the law firm of Shute, Mihaly & Weinberger in San Francisco.  Richard has received numerous awards, including the California Lawyer Magazine Attorney of the Year award in 2009 and 2003 and the Ecology Law Quarterly Environmental Leadership Award in 2003. He has published several articles on environmental justice lawyering, and was co-author of a book published by Beacon Press on international human rights law in the West Bank entitled Plowshares and Swords.