Abigail (Abby) Roth

Board of Directors

For the past five years, Abby has served as Director of Communications for Medical Education at Yale School of Medicine. Prior to this role, she was Special Assistant to the Dean at Yale School of Management (six years), and Director of Alumni Affairs at Yale Law School (4.5 years). Before returning to Yale, where Abby attended college and law school, she spent two years clerking for judges and eleven years as a federal government lawyer, predominantly focused on firearms and explosives law and policy.

Abby is active with traffic safety advocacy, including around how we design our streets. She is on the Common Ground board and previously served as Ward 7 alder for six years. She loves learning about history and architecture, and believes preserving local history enriches cities.