Abigail Abrash Walton has worked in the arenas of advocacy & change leadership at the international, national, state and local level for more than two decades. She is the founder and principal of ActionWorks, a consulting firm focusing on issue & policy research, communications, and strategic planning.  Her previous leadership includes service as program director for the Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Center for Human Rightsand New Hampshire Citizens Alliance.  She has testified before both houses of the U.S. Congress, and the Massachusetts and New Hampshire legislatures, trained dozens of others to engage in policy advocacy, and organized and served as spokesperson for several major coalition campaigns. She is faculty for Antioch University New England’s Conservation Psychology Institute and has also been a faculty member in AUNE’s Department of Environmental Studies where she has taught courses in leadership, political economy & sustainability, and environmental justice. It is also where she founded the department’s award-winning Advocacy Clinic that has worked on behalf of external pro bono community partners in the areas of environmental protection and sustainability, social justice, and corporate social responsibility.  She also created and manages AUNE’s U.S. Congressional Progressive Caucus Fellowship, now in its sixth year.  Abigail’s publications include “Conservation through Different Lenses: Reflection, Responsibility and the Politics of Participation in Conservation Advocacy,” in the journal Environmental Management, “The Victims of Indonesia’s Pursuit of Progress,” a New York Times opinion piece, "The Amungme, Kamoro and Freeport: How Indigenous Papuans Have Resisted the World's Largest Gold and Copper Mine," in Blackwell Publishing’s The Globalization Reader, and "Let Freedom Ring: Recharging and Consolidating 'Inside the Beltway' Activism," which appears in Feminist Approaches to Social Movements, Community, and Power.  She also has served as a commentator for The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, The New York Times, National Public Radio, and "The News Hour with Jim Lehrer."  Abigail holds a M.Sc. in Political Theory from the London School of Economics and Political Science, and a B.A. in International Relations from the University of Pennsylvania.  She also served as a Visiting Fellow in the Human Rights Program at Harvard Law School.