Abigail Lambert

Abigail Lambert is a Master of City Planning student at the University of California, Berkeley, concentrating in Environmental Planning and Healthy Cities. Her coursework and research focus on climate adaptation policy and community engagement strategies that support more equitable and democratic planning processes. Abigail is interested in how participatory governance, community-based research, and land use reform can shape more just climate and resilience policy. Before Berkeley, she worked for three years providing equity assessment, research, and writing expertise to support strategy and action development for city and Tribal climate action and resilience plans across the West Coast. Abigail also completed a Bachelor of Arts in Earth Sciences and Environmental Science Communication at Dartmouth College. During her free time, she enjoys backcountry skiing, seeing live music, and biking with her friends.

In addition to her research, Amy previously served as a speechwriter and communications consultant for national nonprofits and members of the United States Congress, a community organizer in Latin America and Southeast Asia, and an adjunct faculty member of the Prison University Project at San Quentin State Prison. In 2023, Amy was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

When she isn’t working, Amy can be found watching bad sports movies, reading books about time travel, or drinking expensive bourbon, and she’s been known to persist in marathon Monopoly games until everyone else gets bored, gives up, and goes to sleep. She also does a lot of work when she’s technically not “working,” because she is a big nerd and genuinely loves her job. But she likes to think of herself more as the Indiana Jones, anthropology-as-contact-sport kind of intellectual, rather than the Frasier Crane, you-secretly-want-to-beat-me-up variety. Like CJ Cregg meets JJ Abrams, but with better data.