Mikayla Tillery is an intern for September 2021 - December 2021 with the DOE Office of Public Affairs. She is also an activist, an organizer, and a freshman at Stanford University. She is the founder of Students for Black Maternal Health and a Princeton Prize in Race Relations recipient. Because of her work in public health advocacy, she has been recognized by Vice President Kamala Harris, Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf, and Congresswoman and Black Maternal Health Caucus founder Lauren Underwood. She has also been named as a Jackie Robinson Foundation Scholar and the youngest Frederick Douglass Global Fellow. In her free time, she participates in electoral organizing and contacted over 150,000 voters during the 2020 Election and the Senate Runoff. Much of this time she spent working for organizations like the Working Families Party, the ACLU, and Planned Parenthood advocating for intersectional civic engagement.