Miya currently serves as Co-Executive Director to the Movement Strategy Collaborative, MIC, a new organizer-led effort to amplify and accelerate California’s power building movements. MIC is catalyzing a unified, multi-racial, and intergenerational movement to scale up organizing power for racial, economic, and environmental justice. This unique effort, aims to dramatically increase the number of skilled organizers and community leaders, build the resilience and durability of power building organizations, and grow the movement wide capacity for alignment, innovation, experimentation, and strategy.
Formally the executive director of the Asian Pacific Environmental Network, APEN, Miya has an extensive background in community organizing, and a long history of working in the environmental justice movement. In her early twenties Miya worked as an organizer in youth and international networks for environmental and economic justice. Miya was a participant in the First National People of Color Environmental Leadership Summit in 1991 and was on the drafting committee of the original Principles of Environmental Justice, a defining document for the environmental justice movement that continues to be used today by grassroots movements and communities of color to illustrate the heart of environmental justice.
Through many years of leadership, Miya has supported the growth and expansion of several local, state, and national organizations to have impact through community organizing and base-building, integrated voter engagement, alliance building, and winning transformational policy for equitable climate solutions and transitioning to a clean and renewable energy economy for all.