Lydia Gaby

Lydia Gaby is a Principal at HR & A Advisors, where she leads projects that promote equitable economic development and resiliency and manages large-scale participatory planning processes. Lydia provides support around program design, financial and organizational strategy, community engagement, and climate adaptation planning. Most recently, she developed an equitable economic development framework for Greenwood Park in Baton Rouge, and is working to design the City of Newark, NJ’s approach to economic development and long-term recovery from COVID-19. Lydia received her bachelor’s degree from Harvard University and pursued coursework in Environmental Science and Public Policy at both Harvard College and the Harvard Graduate School of Design.