Mariah Barber is an author, certified health education specialist, and aspiring researcher who has been working in the field of public health for seven years. Barber holds a MPH in community, social, and behavioral health as well as a BS in public health with a concentration in community health and a BA in international studies with a concentration in Latin America. She has dual certifications in cultural competency and global understating as well as immediate language proficiency in Spanish. Barber’s greatest accomplishments to date includes being named the inaugural College Unions Poetry Slam Invitational (CUPSI) National Haiku Slam Champion in 2014. She published her initial literary work, Of Mics & Pens & Gods & Other College Courses in 2017.
