. Created in 2016, is a merger of two nonprofit organizations—Boston Harbor Island Alliance and Boston Harbor Association. As the leader of the new civic nonprofit, Abbott oversees the Boston Harbor waterfront and the Boston Harbor Islands National and State Park.Even though she’s now a successful CEO, the road to get there was long and bumpy.
Abbott says she experienced discrimination on “multiple fronts” as an openly gay woman working in male-dominated conservative organizations.
Her first encounter with discrimination occurred after her sophomore year in college, when she tried to get a summer job working for the Department of Public Works (DPW) in Falmouth.
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