Lynn Englum has worked in the field of climate change and climate resilience for over a decade. In 2007, she got her start managing communications and climate change campaigns at the World Wildlife Fund. In the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, she joined Rebuild by Design at New York University to focus on the rebuilding efforts. Her work with Rebuild expanded, and she began working directly with cities and communities around climate resilience, addressing issues of social and physical vulnerability to climate change and other threats. In 2016, Lynn was selected for the yearlong Young Climate Leaders Network Fellowship.

Lynn co-directed the documentary Nations of Water – a 52-minute documentary on law and climate migration in the Pacific. Released in 2022, it was a collaboration between the University of New Caledonia and the Pacific Island Universities Research Network (PIURN). Lynn’s current interest and work is dedicated to writing a climate memoir about her year of travel in 2019 to some of the world’s most climate imperiled places, fusing narrative nonfiction storytelling and climate research. Her essays and insights have appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle, Huffington Post, Minnesota Star Tribune, Indianapolis Star, and Sustainable Cities Collective as well as other magazines and journals.