Lindsay is interested in the science behind restoration ecology as well as its intersection with people and communities. At the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation in Washington, DC, she helped direct grant funding to projects that promote community stewardship and the recovery of at-risk wildlife. She found her spark bird, a black-necked stilt, on a site visit in coastal Georgia.

Lindsay earned a Master of Environmental Management from Duke University, where her master’s project examined practical impediments to prescribed fire implementation on private lands. She volunteers for the forest preserve districts of DuPage and Cook counties, and became a Chicago Bird Collision Monitor in spring 2022.