Pamela K. Miller

Executive Director, Alaska Community Action on Toxics
pkmiller@akaction.net

Pamela K. Miller founded ACAT in 1997 and serves as Executive Director. Since 2000, ACAT has been awarded multiple federal grants for which Pam has been serving as team leader and, for the past four years, as principal investigator of a research team that includes faculty investigators from five universities in Alaska, New York, and California. These research projects rely on collaborative efforts with tribes in Alaska to address environmental health and justice issues. Pam co-directs the Body Burden committee for Coming Clean, a national network of groups concerned about chemicals policy reform. She is one of the world’s foremost experts concerning the toxic pesticide lindane, serving two governmental organizations (United Nations and the North American Commission for Environmental Cooperation) to address international concerns about lindane. She was instrumental in prompting the 2006 decision by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to withdraw agricultural products containing lindane from the U.S. Pam is known for her work to prompt statewide, national, and international chemicals policy reform to protect environmental and human health in the Arctic and sub-Arctic. She holds a master’s degree in environmental science from Miami University, Oxford, Ohio (1981).