Our region continues to grapple with the housing crisis that affects livability and quality of life for us all. Our urban planning and built environment work is truly at the intersection of the environment, transportation, and health sectors and allows us to give residents a meaningful role in shaping the communities around them.
Lynsey is responsible for identifying prospects, cultivating relationships, and winning proposals to build on PRR’s environmental work on the west coast.
I oversee PRR’s environmental sector on the west coast – that includes our water, energy, product stewardship, resiliency, and parks, open space, and built environment work. The west coast is a leader in many ways when it comes to environment work, so my job is constantly evolving.
Our region continues to grapple with the housing crisis that affects livability and quality of life for us all. Our urban planning and built environment work is truly at the intersection of the environment, transportation, and health sectors and allows us to give residents a meaningful role in shaping the communities around them.
We have always focused on community engagement that meets people where they are, but over the past several years we have really focused on formalizing that into a robust Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion practice. We are still on our journey to become an anti-racist organization, and many clients are on similar journeys – the work we’ve brought in lately that prioritizes diversity, equity, and inclusion and will allow us to center community voices is especially exciting to me.
The west coast is on the forefront of so many projects that will improve the environment around us – I’m so eager to dive into more clean energy, resiliency, and product stewardship work, and continue supporting work to improve our aging water and energy infrastructure. Our region is also continuing to tackle the housing crisis, and we have some exciting opportunities to help shape.
I have two young kids who are always up for an adventure, so we spend lots of time exploring different parks, hikes, or experimenting and doing art inside during our rainy winters. I love to cook and bake, and I’m dreaming of summer and my garden, the farm where we are CSA members.
Name, Title: Lynsey Burgess, director, environment-west
Email: lburgess@prrbiz.com
Desk/contact phone: 425-765-6483
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lynseyaburgess/
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An anti-racist PRR dismantles systems of advantage based on race when and wherever possible. We engage staff of all racial identities in dismantling white supremacy culture at work. This includes personal ideologies, beliefs, and behaviors. And, it includes removing white supremacy culture from the systems, cultural messages, institutional policies, procedures, and practices that PRR and our staff interact with and inform. We believe it is not enough to be “not racist.” We must be “anti-racist.”
