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Liz O’Donoghue leads the Resilient Communities Strategy team in the Nature Conservancy of California’s Climate Program. Liz focuses on innovative mitigation approaches, greenprints, sustainable land patterns, climate resilience and transportation planning and policy. Prior to joining the Nature Conservancy, Liz served as Strategic Planning Director and Public Affairs Director at Amtrak West; before that she was Legislative Assistant for transportation and natural resources policy for U.S. Senator Frank Lautenberg in Washington, DC; and prior to that, a policy associate at a consulting firm in New Jersey focusing on transportation, environmental and health care issues. She holds a B.A from Oberlin College and a certificate with distinction in Business Administration from U.C. Berkeley.