Trace Lane (she/her/hers) is a senior project manager and researcher for the UCLA Luskin Center for Innovation (LCI). Her work is focused on extreme heat equity. Trace’s portfolio includes project management, design support, and research for the federally funded NOAA National Integrated Heat Health Information System’s Center of Excellence for Heat Resilient Communities, based at LCI. She also manages a project on extreme heat ranking and monitoring for the California Governor’s Office of Planning and Research as part of the state’s Integrated Climate Adaptation and Resiliency Program.

Trace is an interdisciplinary climate resilience, equity, and engagement specialist with a focus on extreme heat resilience. She has extensive experience providing research, design, and project management for governmental agencies, academic institutions, nongovernmental organizations, and communities in the U.S., India, and Peru. Trace completed a B.S. in Organizational Psychology and an M.P.A. in Political Science and Public Affairs from the University of Alabama, and an M.S.W. – A.M. in International Social Welfare and Human Rights from the University of Chicago.

Before joining the LCI team, Trace was a senior energy equity consultant for a global engineering firm and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Environmental and Climate Justice Program. Trace’s recent extreme heat mitigation work includes the design and launch of an extreme heat resilience campaign in Santa Barbara County, and the design and management of an equity-centered cost/benefit analysis of extreme heat mitigation options for the City of Los Angeles Bureau of Street Services.

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