Meet the Founder
Milka Rodriguez was born in Dominican Republic and raised in New York City. She is an avid traveler who has visited 22 countries worldwide and is interested in leading sustainability education programs and eco-tours that support the UN Sustainable Development Goals 2030 and social good projects in Dominican Republic via her company Globetrotting Dominicana LLC. She has a Master's degree in Sustainability in the Urban Environment from CUNY the City College of New York and Bachelor's in Environmental Policy, Planning, and Law from Syracuse University. She works on initiatives at the intersection of climate policy and research, economic development, and youth engagement at the NYC Mayor’s Office of Climate and Environmental Justice. She haws served as a Civil Society Youth Representative at the United Nations Department of Global Communications (UNDGC) and as a member of the UNDGC Youth Steering Committee and the UN Global NGO Executive Committee engaging youth and NGO’s on issues at the forefront of the UN agenda.
Previously, she worked with non- profits to provide business development and procurement technical assistance services to businesses ranging from start-ups to multi million dollar enterprises. As a result of her past sustainability work, she won a Youth for the UN Sustainable Development Goals scholarship from Peace Boat US, a Japanese NGO, to travel through Central America to learn about peace and sustainable development. Ms. Rodriguez has served as a Dominican Republic Fellow with FUNGLODE/GFDD where she traveled to Dominican Republic to collect data to support a multi-year research study on watershed management and governance.
