BCF Director Anne-Marie Lambert Celebrated as a Massachusetts “Unsung Heroine”

Congratulations to Belmont Citizens Forum board member Anne-Marie Lambert, who was chosen by state Representative Dave Rogers as the 2018 “Unsung Heroine” for his district and received the award in the Great Hall of Flags at the Massachusetts State House on June 20.

Each year the Massachusetts Commission on the Status of Women partners with state legislators to identify one woman from each of their constituencies who “doesn’t always make the news, but truly makes the difference.”

“Anne-Marie Lambert is an environmentalist with deep knowledge of the land and water of Belmont,” Rogers wrote in the biographical sketch he submitted. “The battle over the Uplands—one of the last true urban wilds in the Greater Boston area—was long and difficult, and in the end, environmentalists did not prevail. Anne-Marie transformed its lessons into creative pursuits like the Belmont Stormwater Working Group to advocate successfully to reduce pollution and flooding from new developments by using up-to-date precipitation data; the Belmont ‘Staycation’ campaign to reduce energy used by Belmont residents to fly around the globe; and Belmont nature walks she leads with local poets and actors to connect residents with the place where they live. Anne-Marie has been a Town Meeting member and director of the Belmont Citizens Forum for more than 10 years, organizing stormwater forums and volunteer cleanup days, and publishing articles to inform citizens about local history and environmental and stormwater issues.”

The Belmont Citizens Forum agrees with Rogers and the commission that Lambert is truly one of the “mentors, volunteers, and innovators who do what needs to be done, without expectations of recognition or gratitude . . . the glue that keeps a community together.”