Ann Mead holds a MPH, BSN, RN with 17 years combined experience in nursing roles ranging tertiary and primary care across the lifespan, and in public health program design, management and evaluation at the community and institutional levels. Ann has worked to organize colleagues around sustainability initiatives in various Washington D.C.-based institutions, where she has served on hospital Environmental Sustainability Committees, founded institutional and unit-based Green Teams and recently founded a Nurse Sustainability Sub-Council to harness the power of nurses to prioritize and tackle sustainability initiatives. Ann has joined the Alliance of Nurses for Healthy Environments for advocacy actions including testifying before the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to urge tighter regulations on greenhouse gas emissions from the oil and gas industry. Her publications include a guest blog post for the Global Center for Good Governance in Tobacco Control’s 2022 World No Tobacco Day themed Poisoning Our Planet, two Spanish language articles on climate change in the D.C.-based Revista Ágrafos (2020, 2021), an article on Identifying Nurses’ Power to Confront Climate Change, published in the Children’s National Pediatric Nursing Journal (Winter 2025) edition. She is currently a RN at Children’s National hospital in Washington, D.C.