Maya Barnes, Graduate Student Staff Assistant

Maya BarnesPortfolio includes: SPH DEI Brand Identity Development & Student Engagement

Maya Barnes is a third year dual-degree graduate student in the Department of Health Management and Policy and the Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning. She is deeply interested in the relationship between the built environment and health, particularly how historic housing policies have created social inequities. This summer Maya was a graduate intern with the Dalio Center for Health Justice at NewYork-Presbyterian. Her projects included creating a health equity curriculum for graduate medical education and centralizing food insecurity resources at the enterprise level. Maya is originally from Massachusetts and in her free time she loves jogging in the Arb and eating Blank Slate ice cream.