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Mariah Davis | Environmental Justice Officer, Maryland Department of Natural ResourcesMariah Davis is the Environmental Justice Officer for the Maryland Department of Natural Resources. In her role, she works to ensure programs, policies, funding and projects have positive impacts in communities that have been disproportionately impacted. She has centered her career providing DEIJ technical assistance and policy guidance to a broad base of stakeholders across the Chesapeake Bay watershed to include nonprofits, local governments, grant makers, and members of Congress. She was recently awarded a Young Gifted and Green 40 Under 40 award from Black Millennials 4 Flint for her work on environmental justice. Mariah previously served as the Deputy Director of the Choose Clean Water Coalition, a program of the National Wildlife Federation. One of her legacy programs was managing the Coalition’s Young Professionals of Color (YPC) Mentorship Program. YPC has provided free professional development to more than 200 BIPOC professionals and was designed to close the racial gap in the Chesapeake Bay restoration movement. Before joining the Coalition, Mariah successfully advocated for the creation of the Virginia Council on Environmental Justice established by Governor Terry McAuliffe in 2017. Mariah holds a Bachelor of Environmental Studies from Virginia Commonwealth University and a Master of Public Management from the University of Maryland. She is a founding board member of Annapolis Pride and planned the city’s first pride parade. |
