Aliya Mejias

Aliya Mejias serves as an executive Knauss Fellow with the Climate Program Office's Climate Adaptation Partnerships team, formerly the Regional Integrated Sciences and Assessments (RISA) program, at NOAA. She supports sustained, collaborative relationships that help communities build lasting and equitable climate resilience.
She graduated with her master's in Landscape Architecture from the University of Maryland, College Park (UMD). Her thesis explored how the public right of way could better support urban livability through the application of Green Complete Streets, which prioritized people, ecology, and sustainable transportation over car-centric mobility. Prior to UMD, she worked in fundraising at a grassroots environmental non-profit and in construction project coordination, where she became interested in the build environment's impact on the environment. She received her bachelor's degree in Environmental Studies from American University. In her free time, she enjoys exploring the DMV on bicycle, sitting on public benches, and spending time with friends and family.