Niouma Semega is a senior at NYU studying Global Public Health and Sociology minoring in environmental studies & Data Science as an aspiring public health practitioner with a mission to tackle environmental health disparities connected to diseases and environmental justice reform in underserved communities. She is a CEO of her own founded 5o1c3 non-profit SemegaChange that supports the education, projects and businesses of an empire of Black and women of color in STEM cultivating change. SemegaChange has partnered with many facilities like NYULangone and currently has projects in Tanzania where they are increasing professional development for young girls in Dar Es Salaam, a mentorship alliance program in Nigeria, and a program for young children in the DRC. She is a past Victoria Secret's PINK GRL PWR Project Winner in the Sustainability Category. A 2023 Emerging Leader at NYU's School of Global Public Health where she delivered a talk on “Racism Polluting the Water” and investing in LMICs. She recently was awarded 1st Place at the 35th Annual CSTEP Conference for her novel invention that extracts pollutants from bodies of water she has developed in the past 8 years! Where she received an award from Stockholm, Sweden, a gold medalist at NAACP ACT-SO and more. She hopes to expand and continue her research in current projects like; "EPA Monitoring Disparity" and "Open Burning in Kphone, Ghana", "Health Effects of Climate Change in Uganda", to continue to improve public health to prevent diseases and illnesses that stem from environmental factors.