Vernice Miller-Travis | |
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| Other names | Vernice Miller |
Vernice Miller-Travis is an environmental activist. She analyzes hazardous waste sites designated by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
She first studied at Barnard College, and then graduated from Columbia University. [1]
She protested against apartheid. She worked for the Natural Resource Defense Council. [2]
She worked with the United Church of Christ on a project linking zip codes with hazardous waste sites, [3] through this work she linked air quality in West Harlem with high rates of asthma in children. [4]
She co-founded West Harlem Environmental Action which fought to implement conditions that would reduce fumes from the sewage treatment plant that sits under Riverbank State Park. [5] [6] In this project she tracked the spatial extent of fumes from an unfinished sewage treatment plant. [7] Miller coordinated the citizens responses to the fumes from the plant, [8] and in 1994 the group received a settlement from the city of New York in order to document health problems in the area. [9]
She served as the Vice-Chair of the Clean Water Action Board of Directors. [10] She co-founded We Act for Environmental Justice. [1] [11]
She is the Executive Vice President of the social-justice organization Metropolitan Group, [12] [13] and in this role she has been working to reduce funding to states that have policy that are considered racial discrimination. [14] A portion of her work involves analyzing data on hazardous waste sites from the United States' Environmental Protection Agency to identify cases racial discrimination in an area. [15]