Vernice Miller-Travis: Now is the Time

University of Michigan School for Environment and Sustainability

This is a 60 minute video recording of a presentation by Vernice Miller-Travis, on January 19, 2010 at the University of Michgan. Ms. Miller-Travis speaks on the occasion of the 24th Annual MLK Symposium, and for the SNRE Dean's Speaker Series. Vernice Miller-Travis is the principal of an environmental consulting group called Miller-Travis & Associates. She has been a key convener of an effort to bring the voices of the environmental justice constituency into dialogue with the Obama/Biden Transition Team and the new administration. She was invited to the White House to witness President Obama's signing of two Memoranda of Understanding on raising automobile fuel efficiency standards. She is also co-chair of the Working Group on School Air Monitoring to the National Environmental Justice Advisory Council of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. She also serves as vice-chair of the Maryland State Commission on Environmental Justice and Sustainable Communities, where she leads an effort to encourage state and local governments to consider the environmental and public health dimensions of local land-use and zoning decisions.