Born in Melbourne, Australia, Vancouver is Lucy Maloney’s chosen home. After she and her family moved in 2017, they settled in the West End, her children attending Lord Roberts Elementary school, only a 2 minutes walk from their rental home. However after 18 months, they were renovicted, and had to move much further away from the kids’ school. They decided to cycle to and from school, and discovered that the streets around the school weren’t safe, which prompted Lucy to organise with other members of her community to advocate for safer streets for kids to get to school.
Her community and road safety advocacy grew and grew over the years - she chaired the Lord Roberts Elementary School Parent Advisory Council (PAC) and coordinated the Lord Roberts School Street for over 2 years. She eventually became a high profile spokesperson and road safety advocate for Vision Zero Vancouver and District PAC’s Active Transport/Safe Routes Working Group lead, helping parents from schools across Vancouver navigate municipal processes to advocate for safer streets around their kids’ schools. She won her fight for a separated bike lane next to Lord Roberts, and the street now works better for all road users when kids are being picked up and dropped off at school.
Prior to making the decision to focus on family, Lucy built a career in the public and private sector. She studied Law and Arts (Environmental Science) at university, and after several years working in commercial law firms, secured her dream job as in-house counsel at her State’s Environment Protection Authority. Her work as a public sector lawyer involved representing the EPA in prosecutions, administrative appeals, contract negotiations, FOI and privacy matters, and training environmental enforcement officers in carrying out their duties in a fair and defensible manner.
After a decade at the EPA, she entered the private sector, where she supported operations producing aluminium, copper and potash - which are required for the climate transition, and to feed the world.
She worked in a small town in Western Australia where she led BHP Billiton Worsley Alumina’s Sourcing and Contracts team, where she negotiated contracts for the high-value goods and services required by the company’s bauxite mine, alumina refinery, railway and port facilities, from which alumina is shipped to customers around the world for smelting into aluminium. During her time in Western Australia she commenced her MBA and welcomed her family’s first child to the world.
She then moved to Singapore, where she continued working for BHP Minerals Exploration, which explored for copper and potash, as a Risk Management specialist, until the birth of her second child. She completed her MBA in 2011. Lucy then moved with her family to Santiago, Chile, where she focused on raising her young family. She obtained her Diploma de español como lengua extranjera (DELE) Nivel B2 in 2017.
Lucy and her family live in Downtown Vancouver, where they get around the city by bike, e-bike, transit, car, taxi, and Aquabus. She’s laser-focused on building an affordable and safe city for everyone: where we can all get where we’re going safely, where we can all get ahead, and where we all belong.
