She is a member of the Social Science Environmental Health Research Institute, and a member of the National Institutes of Environmental Health-funded PROTECT (Puerto Rico Test Site for Exploring Contamination Threats) program’s community engagement and research translation cores. Ramirez-Andreotta holds an MPA in environmental science and policy from Columbia and a PhD in soil, water and environmental science from the University of Arizona. For her dissertation, she led a citizen science project called “Gardenroots” where local residents who lived near a superfund site measured arsenic levels in the edible tissues of the vegetables growing in their gardens. She also holds a BA in photography and has extensive experience in museum education.