Abigail Lantz is a Senior Manager for Policy and Government Affairs at Children's Hospital Los Angeles, where she oversees a policy portfolio affecting a patient population that relies heavily on Medi-Cal. Abigail recently spent nine months as a Senior Advisor for Global Impact Initiatives at Rotary International, where she was brought on to develop an organization-wide monitoring and evaluation strategy. Before moving to Los Angeles, her new home, Abigail served as a Foreign Affairs Officer at the U.S. Department of State from 2022 to 2025. At State, she led a team of conflict prevention experts within the former Bureau of Conflict and Stabilization Operations, managed the Bureau's largest program portfolio, and ran aid distribution in an active conflict zone. Among her assignments, she served as Special Assistant to the Under Secretary for Civilian Security, Democracy, and Human Rights; deployed to U.S. embassies in Abidjan, Mexico City, Paris, and the Holy See; and earned a Superior Honor Award and a Meritorious Honor Award. Abigail joined the federal government as a Presidential Management Fellow in 2021 and served as an International Trade Specialist at the Department of Commerce, where she contributed to the 2023 National Export Strategy. Earlier in her career, she researched economic mobility and poverty alleviation at The Pew Charitable Trusts and interned for USAID, the Office of the Mayor of the City of Chicago, the MacArthur Foundation, and the U.S. Senate. She holds master's degrees in political science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and European studies from the University of Gothenburg, as well as a bachelor's in public policy from UNC. She has studied French, Arabic, Italian, and Spanish. Abigail co-chairs Foreign Policy for America's Democracy & Human Rights working group and previously chaired the Young Professionals Board of the Chicago Refugee Coalition in her birth city, Chicago.