Facilitators
Milagros Rosado Elia, MA, APRN, ANP-BC is the Program Manager for Climate and Clean Energy Advocacy at the Alliance of Nurses for Healthy Environments, where she leads national strategies on climate policy and health equity. She is a nationally recognized nurse leader, environmental health advocate, and international speaker, with over 25 years of experience as an Adult Nurse Practitioner. Milagros is the immediate past-chair of the former ANA Innovation Advisory Committee on Planetary and Global Health, and currently a member of the National Hispanic Nurses Association’s Policy and Advocacy Committee.
Cara Cook, MS, RN, AHN-BC (she, her) is the Deputy Director for the Alliance of Nurses for Healthy Environments. Her work focuses on elevating environmental health as a national priority by engaging nursing organizations and individual nurses in environmental health advocacy, education, and practice change. Cara has experience in critical care and public health nursing. She holds a Master’s in Community/Public Health Nursing through the University of Maryland.