Mariah Carray

Mariah Carray is a senior at Macalester College, studying health and international development. Mariah has worked all over the world addressing issues of poverty, health and environmental degradation. Mariah uses multi-sectoral collaborations to address root causes of global inequities.

Mariah began her international work in 2010 with NGO BuildOn to construct a school in a rural village in Malawi. While living in Minnesota, Mariah facilitated community conversations between immigrants, refugees and college students at the Jane Addams School for Democracy. Mariah’s leadership on environmental health at the International Environmental Youth Congress in Bolivia (2012) and Peru (2013, 2014) fueled her passion to connect grassroots efforts to policy. She pursued this health focus on her 2015 mission to Ghana to develop a social protection platform for tuberculosis patients at the invitation of the Government of Ghana. Mariah’s commitment to multi-sectoral collaboration to integrate health into climate action grew with her attendance at COP21, the UN Climate Change Conference in Paris.