Melissa Miles (she/her) is an Environmental and Climate Justice advocate who began her career as a community organizer while living in an environmental justice community in Newark, New Jersey. She holds an MA in Anthropology from The New School, yet maintains that her knowledge of EJ is rooted in her lived experience, the training she received from veteran organizers, and her accountability to her community. 

Melissa is the Executive Director of the New Jersey Environmental Justice Alliance, an organization with a history of leadership in the local and national EJ movement. She is a recipient of the Governor’s Environmental Excellence Award for her work on the landmark Environmental Justice Law (2020). She serves as co-chair of the NJDEP Environmental Justice Advisory Council, a steering committee member of Coalition for Healthy Ports, the grassroots co-chair and a steering committee member of Building Equity and Alignment for EJ (BEA), and is the EJ Director for the NJ Reparations Council. Melissa is also a proud alum of the inaugural cohort of the EJ Disrupt Design Fellowship of the Tishman Environment and Design Center at the New School.

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The David Bradford Energy and Environmental Policy Seminar Series is coordinated by the Center for Policy Research on Energy and the Environment (C-PREE), and co-sponsored by the High Meadows Environmental Institute (HMEI). This seminar is also co-sponsored by SPI in NJ.

This in-person event is open to the public. Princeton University community members do not need to RSVP. Members of the general public should RSVP to ccrosby@princeton.edu and will be accommodated as space allows.

This seminar will be livestreamed at http://mediacentrallive.princeton.edu/ and videos of the recordings are posted on C-PREE's YouTube channel within a week or two after the event.

Sponsorship of an event does not constitute institutional endorsement of external speakers or views presented.