Micah Wilkins (she/they) is an Evaluation Project Manager at Grassroots Solutions. Throughout her education and career, Micah continues to tie together threads of racial and economic injustice and health inequities. Micah studied American history and creative writing at Warren Wilson College in Asheville, NC, and spent her early career working in nonprofits in her hometown of Kansas City, MO. As an educator and program coordinator, she worked to address food insecurity and empower low-income families to make the healthy choice the easy choice, while also supporting the local chapter of the Fight for $15 movement to raise the minimum wage.

To continue connecting the dots between systems of oppression and health outcomes, Micah received her Master’s in Public Health at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she concentrated on Health Equity, Social Justice, and Human Rights. Micah then moved to Minneapolis, MN to work in the Injury Prevention and Mental Health Division at the Minnesota Department of Health, where she was the lead evaluator for long-term grants on adverse childhood experiences, intimate partner violence prevention, and substance misuse surveillance and prevention.

Micah joined the Grassroots Solutions team in 2025. As a researcher, evaluator, writer, and project manager, it is Micah’s goal to center those with lived experiences in her work by engaging partners and community members in data collection, interpretation, and decision-making.

In her free time, Micah enjoys running, hiking, gardening, camping, and being outdoors, ceramics and throwing clay on the wheel, cooking vegan and gluten free food, and spending time with friends and family.