Dr. Amia Nash is a Postdoctoral Scholar at UC Berkeley, School of Public Health with a specialty area in Maternal, Child, and Adolescent Health. She was first introduced to the EDRC in 2014 when she worked as an Administrative Assistant connecting youth and adults in the community to resources and organizing educational workshops at schools and workplaces. Since then, she has served as a long-time advocacy volunteer of the EDRC. Amia’s advocacy continued when she served as a local titleholder in the Miss America Organization. As Miss Silicon Valley 2018, her personal platform was mental health advocacy and she partnered with the National Alliance on Mental Illness and the EDRC.
Amia attended Santa Clara University for undergrad and then earned her Master of Science in Community Health and Prevention Research from Stanford University School of Medicine. Her past research was at the Stanford Center for Youth Mental Health and Well-being where she conducted qualitative research focused on the mental health needs and concerns of Asian-American adolescents and parents in Palo Alto. In 2019, Amia was nominated by the Santa Clara County Behavioral Health Department for a Community Hero Award for her policy and advocacy work focused on adolescent mental health.