Kristin Lambert is a UVA and Batten Alum (BA & MPP) with over 12 years of experience as a program manager, technical advisor and researcher on global donor-funded programs related to food security, agriculture and natural resource management. She works on Mercy Corps' Agriculture Systems team within the agency's Technical Support Unit, and is Director of the USAID/BHA-funded SCALE Award, which provides capacity strengthening, knowledge sharing and research support to BHA's global portfolio of programs engaged in agriculture, NRM and alternative livelihoods activities in fragile, food-insecure contexts. Kristin Lambert will speak on Food security and Climate Change.