Hilary Walecka earned a Master of Environmental Science and Management in conservation planning from the Bren School of Environmental Science and Management at University of California, Santa Barbara, in 2015. Upon graduation, Walecka served as spatial research assistant for Stanford's Center for Ocean Solutions, focusing on conservation planning at the land-sea interface.
Walecka helped strengthen the Conservancy's coastal climate adaptation and resiliency work and refined programmatic priorities, facilitated regional coordination, engaged stakeholders, and developed pilot climate studies and adaptation projects.
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California State Coastal Conservancy