Awards and Activities
- McNally Award for Excellence in
Geography - Douglas Eyre Award for Outstanding
Leadership - Volunteer Ambulance Driver – North
Haven, Maine EMS
Bachelor of Arts in Geography and Environmental Studies, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
Mia likes to do anything that gets her outside – biking, hiking, skiing, and canoeing, which she took up when she moved to Minnesota. She also taught herself to knit when she was in Maine, and she likes reading.
Mia is a planner with strong knowledge of GIS applications and a demonstrated ability to engage stakeholders and work with them to identify strategies to address community development topics such as housing shortages, climate change impacts, resilience, and economic diversification. She spent two years serving as the sole planner for North Haven, Maine, an island village of less than 400 people. In addition to working with residents on several planning initiatives, she built the village a GIS database, from scratch, that will facilitate future community planning efforts.
As a student, she also conducted research on the Galapagos Islands. She used GIS, drone surveying, and engagement with local farmers to identify and document that farming and land use practices.
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