Lyn works as a program operations coordinator at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, supporting program-level operations in the Environment & Science team, along with grantmaking on the Foundation’s work to protect and restore the ocean. Lyn first joined the Packard Foundation in 2019 as a program assistant, providing grantmaking and operations support to various program and cross-program teams across the Foundation.

Lyn serves as a co-director of the Dollar a Day Fund for Indigenous Environmental Justice. Prior to joining the Foundation, Lyn worked with the John S. Knight Journalism Fellowships at Stanford University. Lyn holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Sociology and Women’s and Gender Studies from Santa Clara University.