Allie Olsonoski

Analyst, Resilient Coasts and Watersheds, Environmental Defense Fund

Allie is an Analyst on the Resilient Coasts and Watersheds Team for EDF, and she also serves as the projects team coordinator for the Restore the Mississippi River Delta coalition. In these roles, she tracks priority coastal restoration projects in Louisiana, coordinates project team meetings, and helps to identify barriers – and solutions to overcome them – to project implementation. As a Louisiana native, she is passionate about protecting and preserving the coast and all the communities it serves!

Allie received a Bachelor’s in Civil and Environmental Engineering from Villanova University, a Master’s in Public Administration from Tulane University, and a Master of Urban Management and Development from Erasmus University Rotterdam. She completed her capstone project at Tulane on strategic flood risk communication, and her thesis at EUR on institutional inertia and critical junctures in the water management sector in New Orleans.