Lindsey grew up in Flagstaff, Arizona. She holds a bachelor’s degree in environmental studies from the University of Colorado at Boulder with a specialization in natural resource policy. After college, she led a multinational cookstove implementation project in the Peruvian Andes, developed a women’s empowerment program outside Cusco, and worked to conserve land with the Eagle Valley Land Trust in Eagle County, Colorado. In 2016, she graduated from the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies with a master’s degree. Currently Lindsey is a law student at the University of Denver Sturm College of Law, where she explores environmental, public lands, and water law while serving as the symposium editor for the Denver Water Law Review. Lindsey is inspired by the mountains and plateaus of the American Southwest and loves to ski, fly fish, and hike with her black Labrador, Luna.