Environmental Health Organizer
Kiera joined Clean Water Action as the Environmental Health Organizer in May 2024. She has been connected to environmental justice throughout her life. Her research, work, and activism have been acts of remembering her grandfather, and his early passing from a cancer caused by his exposure to agricultural pesticides. Her father and his family’s immigration from Spain to the United States informs not only her heritage as a Hispanic woman, but also her insistence on the right of all people to live and work in healthy and safe environments.
Kiera graduated with distinction from the University of Oxford with a Master of Science in Nature, Society and Environmental Governance in 2023. She specialized in environmental governance through community power and policy activism. The year prior, Kiera graduated from the University of Warwick with a Master of Arts in Writing, where she specialized in environmental justice writing. While completing her Bachelor of Arts from Amherst College in 2021, Kiera wrote her environmental justice fiction novel at the intersection between art and environmental science.
Kiera came to Clean Water Action from a range of work for environmental justice at the community level. She has advocated alongside Latino farmworkers in the Pioneer Valley, Massachusetts, worked with the urban agriculture initiatives of socially vulnerable communities in Edinburgh, Scotland, and for an environmental consulting firm testing the groundwater for PFAS on Long Island. She also has taught in a non-profit dedicated to increasing literacy opportunities in underserved schools as well as a guest lecturer at Amherst College on environmental justice activism through creative writing.
She believes that there are many entry points into advocacy, and is dedicated to working alongside communities as they pursue environmental health and justice.
