Miranda Simes
Miranda Simes is the Executive Director of Development for TCA, where she organizes and executes fundraising efforts. This includes developing fundraising plans, participating in solving logistical issues and collaborating with multiple colleagues, institutions and departments. She is also a researcher working on the Post-Traumatic Prison Disorder project.
Miranda graduated from Columbia University in May 2020 with a BA in Sociology. Interested in the ways in which space is weaponized and criminalized, her senior thesis investigated differences in immigration attitudes between two Texas border cities. While at Columbia, Miranda also worked as a research assistant to Dr. Diana Hernández at Columbia’s Mailman School of Public Health, on an extensive interview-based study of energy insecurity in ten American cities as well as on a smoke-free housing study in the Bronx. Miranda continues to work with the NIEHS Center for Environmental Health in Northern Manhattan.
While at Columbia, Miranda also served as treasurer and president of the Columbia Outdoors Club, where she helped found a financial aid program and expanded the club’s event offerings to make the outdoors a more inclusive space for POC. Currently, Miranda is also co-founder of M-A for Racial Justice, a group of high school alumni working for change at her alma mater high school in California.
Miranda Simes is the Executive Director of Development for TCA, where she organizes and executes fundraising efforts. This includes developing fundraising plans, participating in solving logistical issues and collaborating with multiple colleagues, institutions and departments. She is also a researcher working on the Post-Traumatic Prison Disorder project.
Miranda graduated from Columbia University in May 2020 with a BA in Sociology. Interested in the ways in which space is weaponized and criminalized, her senior thesis investigated differences in immigration attitudes between two Texas border cities. While at Columbia, Miranda also worked as a research assistant to Dr. Diana Hernández at Columbia’s Mailman School of Public Health, on an extensive interview-based study of energy insecurity in ten American cities as well as on a smoke-free housing study in the Bronx. Miranda continues to work with the NIEHS Center for Environmental Health in Northern Manhattan.
While at Columbia, Miranda also served as treasurer and president of the Columbia Outdoors Club, where she helped found a financial aid program and expanded the club’s event offerings to make the outdoors a more inclusive space for POC. Currently, Miranda is also co-founder of M-A for Racial Justice, a group of high school alumni working for change at her alma mater high school in California.
