About Us

Shelby White

Shelby graduated with honors from the University of Texas at Austin with degrees in Government and Sustainability Studies before earning her J.D. from the University of Colorado Law School (a semester early!). During law school, she gained meaningful experience interning at the Animal Welfare Institute, the Animal Law Firm, Environmental and Animal Defense, and Friends of Animals. While serving as Associate Editor for the Colorado Environmental Law Journal, Shelby published a paper on the underregulation of CAFOs and their detrimental environmental impact. And of course, she worked with Mason and Aidan as Natural Resources Clinic student attorneys and CLALDF leaders.

Shelby has felt a deep, emotional connection with animals for as long as she can remember, and even stopped eating meat at the ripe age of eight years old. She hopes to create a safer world for all species through legal advocacy. As a native Texan, farmed animals have always had a special place in her heart, but she is also particularly interested in pet and wildlife law. In her free time, Shelby enjoys running, hiking, and spending time outdoors.

Aidan Bodeo-Lomicky

Aidan graduated summa cum laude from Monmouth University with a B.S. in Marine and Environmental Biology and Policy. He then received his J.D. from the University of Colorado Law School with a Certificate in Natural Resources, Energy, and Environmental Law. During law school, Aidan served as Managing Editor of the Colorado Environmental Law Journal, where he published his work on how to better protect the world’s rarest and most recently discovered whale species, the Rice’s whale. 

Additionally, beyond his work with CLALDF and Colorado Law’s Natural Resources Clinic, Aidan has interned with NOAA, the Animal Welfare Institute, the Center for Biological Diversity, Earthjustice, and WildEarth Guardians, among others.

Aidan first got involved with wildlife law during his advocacy for the critically endangered vaquita. After learning about this tiny porpoise in elementary school, he created a website and later wrote the first book about this species. Aidan eventually became president of the Muskwa Club, a 501(c)(3) organization dedicated to wildlife conservation, where he co-founded International Save the Vaquita Day and successfully petitioned the President of Mexico to ban deadly gillnets from the vaquita’s range. However, a lack of adequate enforcement allowed the vaquita’s population to plummet to only a dozen individuals, and this devastating lesson sent Aidan on a direct path towards a career in wildlife law and policy. In his free time, Aidan loves birding and relaxing with a good movie.

Mason Liddell

Mason graduated summa cum laude from the College of William & Mary with a B.A. in Government and Philosophy. Soon after, he graduated Order of the Coif from the University of Colorado Law School with a J.D. and a Certificate in Natural Resources, Energy, and Environmental Law. While in law school, he received the Advancement of Animal Law Scholarship and the first-ever Stacey Gordon Sterling Scholarship, honoring the former Director of the Animal Legal Defense Fund’s Animal Law Program. Additionally, he placed second in the National Animal Law Closing Argument Competition. His work has appeared in the University of San Francisco Law Review and the William & Mary Environmental Law and Policy Review, among others, and he was invited to speak at the eighth and ninth annual ALDF Student Conventions.

Before helping found Animal Counsel, Mason interned with a variety of legal nonprofits. Earlier on, he worked on policy for the Northwest Animal Rights Network and the Friends of Animals Wildlife Law Program. More recently, he worked on litigation issues for the Animal Legal Defense Fund and the Center for Biological Diversity.

Mason initially became interested in animals as a child, spending time poking around the forests of Virginia looking for frogs. These days, not too much has changed. The only difference is that now he runs around the mountains of Colorado looking for bears (and, in all honesty, hoping he doesn’t find them).