LT Kayla DeVault Wendt, MS, MPH/CPH, MDiv, EI

LT Kayla DeVault Wendt is an Engineer in the USPHS Commissioned Corps, presenting in the capacity of both a GW MPH graduate and a current GW DrPH student. She is enrolled Shawnee, descended Anishinaabe, and also of European heritage. Kayla also holds a Masters in American Indian Studies and in Divinity for multi-faith deployment chaplaincy capacity. Most of her work is interdisciplinary, intersecting with public health, housing, engineering, sustainability, culture, epistemology, and Indian (Native American) policy. She has been a Civil Society member to the United Nations (Human Rights-Geneva, Climate Change-Marrakesh), on various boards concerning Indigenous rights/peace/environment, and even a guest to the White House to represent her tribe. Some of her biggest learning experiences came from studying diversity and climate issues abroad and being elected to the youth panel that wrote the first ever report on climate change with US EPA/NEJAC.

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