A little bit more about Forest:
Forest Abbott-Lum is a Master of Environmental Management Candidate at the Yale School of the Environment. Her work focuses on the intersection of food systems and industrial ecology. Prior to Yale, Forest was a Princeton in Asia Fellow at the Natural Resources Defense Council (Beijing office), the E-Commerce Sales and Marketing Manager at Shangrila Farms (a Beijing-based sustainable honey social enterprise), and most recently, the Organics Recovery Coordinator at the NYC Compost Project.

Forest is professionally fluent in Mandarin Chinese and is an OSHA-certified skid steer loader operator. She holds a bachelor's degree from Bennington College in Environmental Studies and Chinese. When she’s not turning the compost piles at the Yale Farm, you can find her cooking Chongqing noodles or volunteering at the Bradley Street Bicycle Coop.