Mikalah is an attorney with a Certificate in Animal Law and an LLM in Environmental, Natural Resources, and Energy Law from Lewis & Clark Law School. She is licensed to practice law in Oregon. She earned her BA in Cognitive Science and Psychology with honors from Case Western Reserve University where she worked on research related to ethics and dehumanization.

As part of the Toxicology Policy Team at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, she focused on policy changes that the National Institutes of Health can make to encourage the use and development of in vitro models in toxicity testing and federal legislation regarding the acceptance of alternative methods. She is now the Program Manager for the Center for Contemporary Sciences and is the Founder and Executive Director for Fox Protection International.

Mikalah is now a Public Policy Manager at the Center for Contemporary Sciences.