Travel Grant Recipients
Daniela Morales
- 2024 J-WAFS Travel Grantee
- Graduate Student
- Department of Urban Studies and Planning
Daniela Morales is a second-year master’s student in city planning at MIT’s Department of Urban Studies and Planning. Her research interests involve drinking water quality and access in rural and peri-urban areas affected by climate change impacts, the effects of municipal water shutoffs on marginalized communities, and the relationship between regional water management and public health outcomes. Before coming to MIT, she worked as an analyst at John Snow Inc., a national public health consulting firm, and as a research assistant conducting environmental health and water research at the Public Health Institute. Daniela received a BA in public health and a BS in conservation and resource studies at the University of California, Berkeley in 2019.