Sabrina Valenti, influenced by her family's military and public service background, felt destined to work in government. Growing up in the Florida panhandle, witnessing disasters like Hurricane Katrina and the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, she became acutely aware of environmental issues. These experiences led her to work for NOAA as a budget analyst focusing on coastal restoration in Louisiana, where she managed projects in areas facing severe coastal land loss, underscoring her commitment to public service and environmental conservation.
You're sitting there powerless, knowing that this oil is going to kill shorebirds and seabirds, that it's going to kill fish, that it's going to cause birth defects in dolphins.
I was going to work in the public sector, one way or another.
After a stint working for the Louisiana state government, she returned to her gulf roots by joining the National Atmospheric and Oceanic Administration.
Valenti oversaw projects in jurisdictions experiencing the highest rate of coastal land loss in the entire country.
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