Kaela will be mapping the food environment in areas densely populated by Venezuelan refugees in Trinidad and Tobago to inform local policy on interventions that promote prevention and management strategies for chronic disease in this population. Kaela is a first year Master of Science Student in the Global Health and Population Department at the Harvard T.H. Chan school. She received her undergraduate degree from the University of California, Berkeley in Political Science and a minor in Environmental Economics and Policy. In between, she spent a year as a Princeton in Latin America fellow at the UN World Food Programme in Panama and two years working at the National Institute of Public Health in Mexico City, Mexico. She is interested in the intersection of migration, food systems, and climate change in Latin America.
