Corey Mikami was a member of the High Schools Group in the mid to late 1990s. He was an accomplished photographer and sometimes contributed his artistic studies of nature to the BAA newsletters and website.

In a 1996 Schools Group newsletter he wrote: “For me, BAA helps give my life direction. By being able to help others in our community, including future generations through work in the environment, I am helping myself. Bay Area Action helps me to understand how to conserve and protect the environment while at the same time teaches me how to share what I know with others. It also gives me a cool sense of belonging and welcomeness.”

He also volunteered with Committee for Green Foothills.

Post BAA

After high school Corey attended UC Santa Cruz. Fostering his love of nature, he later studied agriculture and foreign studies at the The Arava Institute for Environmental Studies in Israel. In 1999 he wrote, “I am passionate about connecting city dwellers back to nature by growing plants in urban areas. I traveled to Australia and Italy, where I noticed varying styles of agriculture and landscape design. These issues interest me as a future landscape designer.”

Corey died from a brain tumor in 2017. Dr. Elaine Solowey, Director of the Center for Sustainable Agriculture, remembered Corey fondly as “a very aware person who loved the trees.”

Corey’s Facebook account has been memorialized.