Angela Oberg is the Senior Director of Climate Action and Sustainability & Chief Climate Officer for Rutgers Office of Climate Action. She is an urban environmental planner whose work aims to make cities more livable and sustainable. Previously, she was an Assistant Teaching Professor in the Department of Human Ecology at Rutgers University. Before coming to academia, Oberg practiced professionally as an environmental planner in California, Texas, and Pennsylvania on projects in the United States, Italy, United Arab Emirates, and Sudan. She holds a Ph.D. in planning and public policy from the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy at Rutgers and a Master of Landscape Architecture from Cal Poly Pomona.