Kiana Michaan

Kiana Michaan is a renewable energy professional, clean energy advocate, and climate storyteller. Kiana is the Communications Manager at Okovate Sustainable Energy, where she works to support the deployment of agrivoltaics. She is the creator, host, & producer of the podcast Climate with Kiana, a show focused on climate solutions in a framework of joy and justice. She is also producing a video series for the podcast highlighting climate and clean energy solutions. Kiana previously worked at Sologistics where she provided permitting, utility interconnection, and project management for hundreds of solar projects across New York City. She has worked with Black Girl Environmentalist on community building and with Our Climate Voices on climate justice storytelling. Kiana has worked with WE ACT for Environmental Justice on equitable solar development. She is an alum of the Clean Energy Leadership Institute Fellowship, OnePointFive Academy, and holds a certificate in Clean Energy from NYU. Kiana served as a member of the advisory panel for the non-profit Diversity in Sustainability, currently serves as a board member at Eco.Logic, a non-profit dedicated to environmental art & education, and is a member of Green Leadership Trust. She is passionate about climate justice storytelling.