Abigail York is a Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in the School of Human Evolution and Social Change at Arizona State University. She co-directs Earth System Science for the Anthropocene (ESSA) a transdisciplinary graduate training network in the Global Futures Lab launched in 2021, which trains graduate students in transdisciplinary team science focused on justice, equity, and co-production of solutions with communities and stakeholders to solve today’s Anthropocene challenges. Abigail has a BA in economics from Knox College and a PhD in Public Policy from Indiana University. Her work is focused on environmental governance of social-ecological systems that are rapidly changing - she leads several large National Science Foundation funded transdisciplinary projects including work on sea ice change in the Beringia region of Far Eastern Russia and Alaska, unconventional oil and gas drilling in Appalachia, and urbanization and climate justice in Phoenix, and a US Department of Agriculture funded project on governance of water and irrigated agriculture in areas facing snowpack decline due to climate change.