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Dr. Elise Miller answers your questions about environmental toxins
and their threat to children’s health. Visit
the discussion board.
ABOUT THE EXPERT:
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Dr. Elise Miller |
Elise Miller, M.Ed. is founder and executive director
of the Institute for Children’s Environmental Health (ICEH)
based in Freeland, Washington. She brings a wealth of experience
from the foundation and nonprofit worlds where she has worked with
various organizations on environmental health concerns nationally
and internationally.
Ms. Miller serves on the national boards of directors of the Children’s
Environmental Health Network (in Washington, DC) and the Whidbey
Institute (in Clinton, WA). In addition, she is on the advisory
board of Commonweal, a health and environmental research institute
based in northern California, the Healthy Schools Network, Inc.,
(in New York), and the Alliance for a Healthy Tomorrow (in Massachusetts).
She also recently completed a fellowship at the Fetzer Institute,
based in Kalamazoo, Michigan, for her work on environmental health
and with emerging leaders committed to fostering sustainability
locally, nationally and internationally.
From 1993-98, she was executive director of the Jenifer Altman
Foundation, a private foundation in northern California with interests
in sustainable development, mind-body health, environmental health,
and issues affecting disadvantaged children. Ms. Miller has also
been an editor, teacher, researcher, mental health counselor, journalist
and grassroots advocate. She has studied and worked in England,
France and India and traveled extensively in various parts of Europe,
Asia and Africa. She received her Masters degree in Education with
a concentration in adolescent psychology from Harvard University
in 1992 and her Bachelor’s degree with high honors in History
from Dartmouth.
In addition, she is a member of The Learning Disabilities Association
of America’s Professional Advisory Board and Research Committee.
On a personal note, Ms. Miller and her husband recently completed
building their home based on ecologically sustainable principles
and are preparing to adopt a child from Nepal.
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