Our Team / Madeline Oliver
Madeline applies her background in sustainable community planning, clean and equitable transportation advocacy, communications, and climate policy research to support the firm’s transportation, environmental justice, and climate projects.
Madeline joined Better World Group after completing her Master’s Degree in Environmental Science and Management at UCSB’s Bren School in 2021. Since then, Madeline has helped lead the Clean Cars Campaign to successfully strengthen the stringency and equity components of the California Air Resources Board’s Advanced Clean Cars II Regulation, and works in states across the U.S. to support equity, health, labor, and environmental groups in their efforts to urge their states’ to adopt California’s clean cars and clean trucks regulations.
Madeline has also supported the firm’s work on improving California’s Scoping Plan update and 30x30 implementation plan. Through her master’s group project, she assisted the County of Santa Barbara in incorporating natural and working lands into their Climate Action Plan update by quantitatively and qualitatively assessing the climate mitigation potential of these lands under various land management scenarios. While earning her master’s at the UC Santa Barbara Bren School, Madeline researched climate policy at the state and national level with the university’s Environmental Market Solutions Lab (emLab). During her time at the Bren School, she also worked on efforts to advance diversity, equity and inclusion.
Previously, Madeline worked to build more sustainable communities through local planning and policy development with the Sacramento County Planning Department and the Napa County Bicycle Coalition. She received her bachelor’s in Environmental Policy Analysis and Planning from UC Davis. During this time, she helped develop and implement California’s land-use related climate policies and programming for the California Strategic Growth Council and for the Governor’s Office of Planning and Research.
Madeline serves as the Vice-President of the Association of Environmental Professionals Channel Counties Chapter and is a volunteering member of the Association of Women in Water, Energy, and the Environment.
In her free time, Madeline enjoys surfing, practicing yoga, and running around her neighborhood