Anissa McKenna
Tribal Technical Assistance Provider
AIHEC
Anissa McKenna works for the American Indian Higher Education Consortium (AIHEC) as a Tribal Technical Assistance Provider. She works across the SW CASC region of California, Nevada, Utah, and Arizona to connect 159 Federally Recognized Tribal Nations to tools, information, and other climate resilience resources. Anissa is a member of the Pascua Yaqui Tribe of Arizona and received their M.S. in Environmental Science from the University of Arizona with a focus on arsenic contamination resulting from uncapped sulfide mine tailings.