The Wyss Scholars Program

Meridian Wappett

university of montana - law

Meridian Wappett is an Alexander Blewett III School of Law student at the University of Montana. Meridian grew up in northern Idaho and graduated from Utah State University with a degree in conservation-restoration ecology and natural resources pre-law. Meridian's background recreating and guiding on western rivers led her to pursue law school. Meridian has worked at Sierra Club Utah, Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance, and most recently, with Advocates for the West. She has also run communications and environmental policy for a congressional campaign and helped write and pass bipartisan climate change legislation in Utah. Meridian currently sits as the chair of her school's Environmental Law Group, is the publication editor for the Public Land and Resources Law Review and works with various environmental nonprofits in Montana and Idaho as an advocate and educator.