Ms. DeMoss has spent her career solving human health challenges caused by poor environmental practices and policy in a myriad of cultures and countries. As an undergraduate at the University of Texas Austin, she worked with migrant farmworker communities to stop pesticide flyovers that were contaminating their homes. In the United States Peace Corps living among rural Mayan communities, she learned the value of relationships and listening to community voices. A Louisiana native, Ms. DeMoss has worked tirelessly to protect her home, culture, and coastline from damaging wetland and energy policy. Ms.DeMoss has been in the trenches of environmental justice work for seventeen years and has become a progressive energy policy leader both locally and nationally. She is a well-respected public speaker following her successful TEDTalk at the TEDxOilSpill conference. Ms. DeMoss earned her Master’s of Public Health in Biostatistics from Tulane University. However, she believes that her most notable accomplishments are being a breast cancer survivor and mother.