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Abigail (Abby) Fateman was born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1971. Her family moved to Berkeley, California when she was a child and grew up in the Elmwood neighborhood. Fateman attended Wesleyan University in Connecticut for college. After graduating in 1993, she moved to Washington, DC, where she interned for the Children’s Defense Fund. A year later, Fateman took a position in Juneau, Alaska through the new AmeriCorps program. At the end of her year of service, she returned to the San Francisco Bay Area and worked with the East Bay Conservation Corps. She continued working in youth development for a number of years before returning to school. Fateman earned a Master of Science degree from the School of Natural Resources and the Environment at the University of Michigan in 2002. Shortly after graduating, Fateman again returned to the Bay Area and was hired by John Kopchik at Contra Costa County to help with the development of the Habitat Conservation Plan and Natural Community Conservation Plan. Fateman became executive director of the East Contra Costa County Habitat Conservancy in 2014. In this interview, Fateman discusses her early life, family, education, early career, joining Contra Costa County, work with the Habitat Conservancy, working with Save Mount Diablo, how their work dovetails, taking over as executive director, and hopes for the future.

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