Mimi Houston
Mission Coordinator
Mimi Houston, M.A. comes from a multifaceted background in academia, philanthropy, and the arts. She taught at universities around the U.S. in the beginning of her career - designing and instructing courses from introductory economic principles to political and environmental economics and advanced statistical methods.
Eclectic in all her pursuits, her research covers a wide range of interdisciplinary topics like sustainable development, social identity, and international environmental politics. A Ph.D. Candidate of Economics at Colorado State University, her current research examines international environmental treaty-making through a social and political lens. She leads groundbreaking interdisciplinary research on the spaceflight experience alongside preeminent experts in the field.
At her core, Mimi is a humanitarian. Her unfading passion to help others is present throughout her career - even her early life. She organized and led her first philanthropic project when she was 13 and hasn’t stopped since - working with organizations from local farmworker unions to international environmental NGOs both in the field as a volunteer and at the executive level.
Her scholarship, charity, and compassion are what drive her work at Space for Humanity. Unwaveringly, she is propelled forward in an earnest pursuit to make the world a better place.