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Elise Miller, M.Ed.

Elise Miller is founder and executive director of the national Institute for Children’s Environmental Health based in Freeland, Washington. The primary mission of the Institute is to foster collaborative initiatives among diverse sectors to reduce and ultimately eliminate environmental exposures that can undermine children’s healthy development. 

In addition, Ms. Miller currently serves on the national board of directors of the Children’s Environmental Health Network as well as the professional advisory boards of the Learning Disabilities Association of America, the Alliance for a Healthy Tomorrow, and the Healthy Schools Network, Inc.

From 1993-98, Ms. Miller served as founding Executive Director of the Jenifer Altman Foundation, a private foundation in northern California with interests in sustainable development, environmental health, mind-body health, and issues affecting disadvantaged children. In 2001, she completed a three-year Fetzer Fellowship for her work with emerging leaders on sustainable development and environmental health issues.

Ms. Miller has also been an editor, teacher, researcher, mental health counselor, journalist and community-based advocate. She has worked, studied and traveled extensively in Europe and Asia, and spent two years living in India first as a journalist, stringing for the Economist and the Christian Science Monitor, and later as a researcher for her graduate work at Harvard. She received her Masters degree in Education from Harvard University in 1992 and her Bachelor’s degree with high honors from Dartmouth College in 1985.

On a personal note, Ms. Miller and her husband recently completed building their home based on ecologically sustainable principles and they are the happy parents of a baby boy, adopted from Nepal.