Eloise Macmillan Reid is a dual-degree Master's student in Environmental Justice at the School for Environment and Sustainability and Urban and Regional Planning at the Taubman School of Urban and Regional Planning. She works as a Graduate Student Staff Assistant at the School of Education on the diversity, inclusion, justice, and equity (dije) initiative. Her thesis research focuses on the intersection of climate adaptation in coastal cities, green infrastructure design and "climate gentrification" in New Orleans. Prior to Michigan, Eloise worked as an environmental educator for four years in both New Orleans and Chicago. She is a community organizer working to unionize charter schools and also around racial justice. She also co-founded a women-powered landscape design company and installed rain gardens to improve flood reduction in New Orleans. She graduated with a BA in Environmental and Africana Studies from Oberlin College in Oberlin, Ohio. Eloise is originally and proudly from the small town of Moretown, Vermont.
