Mikaele is a student at Yale University, pursuing the BS Environmental Studies major with a concentration in Food and Agriculture. Hailing from New Zealand, Mikaele is passionate about building sustainable global agrifood systems through connecting science, policy, and innovation. She has worked with agriculture technology startups including Halter NZ, which uses intelligent farm management systems to improve animal welfare, productivity, and environmental outcomes for livestock farmers, and Symbrosia, a Yale-founded startup using sustainable seaweed production to mitigate agricultural methane emissions. Last summer, Mikaele pursued research in sustainable agricultural metrics at Oxford University. Most recently, Mikaele interned at the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, working to update the methodology of the Global Livestock Environmental Assessment Model (GLEAM), a spatially-explicit global model for indicating opportunities to improve environmental outcomes in livestock production. Mikaele is committed to developing co-solutions that reflect the urgent need to achieve both zero hunger, and transformative climate action.