Her pivot accelerated when the 2025 freeze on U.S. foreign assistance reshaped the international development sector almost overnight, but the foundation had been building for years: native plant advocacy in her neighborhood, and biodiversity storytelling at Pact, where she led a French-speaking team in Madagascar covering fisheries and marine conservation. Today she works with JSR Strategies on communications for community-owned power providers and writes for The Plant Native, an extension of her long-standing commitment to ecological restoration. Her volunteer work spans Vice President of the Wild Ones Nation's Capital Chapter, VP of Communications with DC EcoWomen, a native garden project at her daughter's elementary school, and advocacy with the 350.org Media Task Force.
Reflecting on her LFA experience, Becky shares: "I started the LFA Fellowship with two decades of communications experience in humanitarian response and international development, and a long-running personal commitment to the environment. What I needed was the system's knowledge to connect those threads with confidence. The Fellowship gave me that foundation, not just the technical literacy to understand climate solutions, but a framework for thinking about how communications can accelerate them. It also came at a pivotal moment professionally, as the aid sector was contracting and I was weighing what came next. LFA helped me see that the craft I'd built over 20 years, translating complex, urgent issues into stories that move people, was exactly what the climate space needed."
Becky's path is a case study in what deep expertise from another field brings to climate work.
