Chicago Recovery Plan Director, Climate and Environmental Justice Initiatives
City of Chicago
Chicago, Illinois
LindyWordlaw, AICP serves as the Chicago Recovery Plan Director for Climate and Environmental Justice Initiatives at the City of Chicago. In this role, Lindy oversees a climate portfolio of 17 projects funded by a historic $188 million dollar commitment, the largest one-time climate investment made by the City that serves as a down payment for jumpstarting climate and environmental justice work in Chicago's historically disadvantaged and under resourced communities. Prior to her work at the City, Lindy led the community planning team at Elevate, a Chicago-based nonprofit in facilitating climate planning and policy work, often paired with stakeholder engagement to clients in many communities, including Chicago, Evanston, Ann Arbor, Iowa City, State of Iowa, Madison, Lancaster (PA), State of Missouri, and many others across the midwest and Chicago metropolitan region. Other previous planning work includes neighborhood and development planning work at the City of Aurora (Illinois) and housing/community development work in Detroit. Lindy served as Chair of APA’s Environment, Natural Resources and Energy Division from 2013 to 2017. She holds a masters degree in urban planning from Hunter College of the City University of New York, and a bachelor of arts from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Wednesday, April 26, 2023
2:30 PM – 3:15 PM CDT