Mia Delano lives in Nashville, Tennessee, working as an epidemiology research project manager. Mia has a Bachelor’s degree in Global Environmental Science and a Master of Public Health (MPH) degree in Environmental Health. Mia’s passion for climate change and public health have led her far and wide: from studying ocean acidification and sea level rise in Hawai’i, to interning in Switzerland at one of the world’s largest international vaccine organizations, to managing the COVID-19 response among unhoused and incarcerated populations in her home state of Colorado. Mia currently works in public health research investigating the links between environmental exposures and health outcomes in Southern, environmentally segregated populations. These communities have endured decades of systemic discrimination and are now subject to the health threats posed by or exacerbated by climate change. Mia hopes to bring her scientific background to the community action space by supplementing local climate and health justice initiatives. She joined CEEJH to learn from subject matter experts how to center the voices of her community, to obtain hands-on policy and advocacy experience, and to leave the program ready to fight for climate and health justice for the duration of her professional and personal life.
Collaborate with residents, advocates, and policymakers driving justice.
Since 2011, CEEJH has partnered with frontline and fenceline communities to address environmental, climate, and energy injustices through grassroots action and policy co-creation. We center those most impacted by harm to lead action and social change.
