Elena Greenberg

Elena Greenberg (she/her) is the Senior Program Coordinator for WISE. She coordinates The Bio/Diversity Project, which is WISE's diversity-focused environmental science outreach program. She helps collaborate and communicate between UArizona students, local K-12 schools and teachers, and WISE partner organizations.

Elena holds a Masters degree in Public Health, concentrating in Health Behavior Health Promotion, from the University of Arizona. She also has her Bachelors of Science in Environmental Studies from Northern Arizona University. Before starting her role as a program coordinator for WISE, Elena worked in Prescott, Arizona for 2 years as a garden and nutrition educator, where she established and built new school gardens, created and facilitated culturally-relevant, hands-on, and place-based Farm to School curriculum for K-12 students, and spearheaded several school wellness committees. Thereafter, she worked with FoodCorps as the Arizona Service Member recruiter and as a Grant Evaluator for the Whole Kids Foundation. During this time she also worked as a K-8 garden teacher for two rural schools in New Mexico, on the Santo Domingo and Cochiti Pueblos. During her last year in the MPH program, she also worked as a public health evaluator for the Community Research, Evaluation & Development Team (CRED) in the Norton School of Family & Consumer Sciences at the University of Arizona. Please contact Elena at elenagreenberg@arizona.edu with any questions about The Bio/Diversity Project.