Scott Wold - Law Student

For Scott Wold, a graduate student at Vermont Law School, being a lawyer isn't about money or notoriety. It's about having the power to make change happen. A former Northland College Student Association President, Scott is familiar with being a leader. But, when you ask him about a future in politics, he gives an emphatic "no."

"Lawyers are the real movers and the shakers," he says. "If you want to change something, as a lawyer, you have the tool kit to do it."

Scott also believes that Northland gave him the set of skills he needed to be successful at Vermont Law. The science and environmental policy courses he took for his major, environmental studies, gave him a strong background in those fields, but he also credits his overall courses and minor in philosophy with changing the way he thinks about issues.

"That's the beauty of Northland," he says. "It's not the one class you look back on, or the one experience, it's everything put together."

In addition to his law degree, Scott is also simultaneously working on a Master's degree in environmental law and policy. The combination of the two degrees, a special program at Vermont Law, will put Scott in a unique position to work on the environmental issues that interest him most. While he hasn't focused in on specific concerns yet, he hopes to get involved with issues related to freshwater, mostly protection and advocacy.