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Aliya Mejias (she/her) is a current Knauss Fellow with the Climate Program Office's Climate Adaptation Partnerships team at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). She supports sustained, collaborative relationships that help communities build lasting and equitable climate adaptation and 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 philanthropy supporting a grassroots environmental non-profit and in construction project coordination, where she became interested in the built environment's impact on nature.