Lucy will be joining the Siler Climate Consulting team in January 2025 as the Director of Climate Resilience. Based in South Portland, Maine, Lucy approaches her work by drawing on leadership skills and capacities of the adaptive mind; she responds with humility, resilience, and resolve to constant change, uncertainty, and systemic challenges. Lucy is committed to catalyzing community-driven planning processes by nurturing authentic relationships; leaning upon a combination of technical, cultural, social, and emotional competencies; and integrating reflections upon positionality into her practice. 

Trained as an urban planner and coastal management specialist, she began her career in local government. Within the City of South Portland’s Sustainability Office, Lucy assumed the role of generalist, bringing together teams of subject matter experts in buildings and energy use, waste reduction, land use, and hazard mitigation to right-size the design and implementation of sustainability programs and policies. After pursuing her graduate studies in Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning at Tufts University, Lucy received a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Fellowship to apply meaningful democratic and empowered community engagement principles to the field of coastal resource management and policy in New Hampshire. Following the Fellowship, Lucy worked for the New Hampshire Department of Environmental Services Coastal Program and led a team of adaptation practitioners supporting residents in low-wealth and climate-vulnerable neighborhoods as they move toward preparedness planning for their futures. She currently volunteers her time through the Climigration Network and Sorrento Maine Climate Resilience Committee and maintains membership as part of the American Society of Adaptation Professionals and the National Association of Climate Resilience Planners.