Executive Director
Elise Miller, MEd, is founder and executive director of the Institute for Children's Environmental Health. She brings a wealth of experience from the foundation and nonprofit worlds where she has worked with various organizations on environmental health concerns nationally and internationally.
Ms. Miller serves on the national boards of directors of the Children's Environmental Health Network (in Washington, DC) and the Whidbey Institute (in Clinton, Washington). In addition, she is on the advisory boards of Commonweal, a health and environmental research institute based in northern California; the Healthy Schools Network, Inc. (in New York); the Alliance for a Healthy Tomorrow (in Massachusetts) and the Child Honoring Advisory Council (in British Columbia). She also recently completed a fellowship at the Fetzer Institute, based in Kalamazoo, Michigan, for her work on environmental health and with emerging leaders committed to fostering sustainability locally, nationally and internationally.
From 1993-98, Ms. Miller was executive director of the Jenifer Altman Foundation, a private foundation in northern California with interests in sustainable development, mind-body health, environmental health, and issues affecting disadvantaged children. Ms. Miller has also been an editor, teacher, researcher, mental health counselor, journalist and grassroots advocate. She has studied and worked in England, France and India and traveled extensively in various parts of Europe, Asia and Africa. She received her Master of Education degree with a concentration in adolescent psychology from Harvard University in 1992 and her Bachelor of Arts degree with high honors in history from Dartmouth College in 1985.
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Program Director
Aimee Boulanger is program director for the Institute for Children's Environmental Health. Prior to this, Aimee served as executive director for Women's Voices for the Earth, a national organization increasing women's leadership to reduce the environmental links to breast cancer, birth defects, children's illnesses, and reproductive harm. She has also worked as field director for the Mineral Policy Center (now called EarthWorks), supporting communities in the western US and around the globe to reduce the negative impacts of mining. Aimee has lived in Alaska, working for Alaska Center for the Environment on environmental health and for the Sierra Club on coastal forest protection. She focused on hunger issues in a position with Oxfam America, traveled to the Philippines to study deforestation issues, and has years of experience working in environmental education programs for children. Aimee serves on the board of Great Basin Mine Watch in Nevada and the Western Mining Action Project in Colorado. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Environmental Studies and Politics from Mount Holyoke College.
Office Manager
Terry Portillo brings a diverse background of work in administration, accounting and local campaign management to her position. From 1996 to 2001, she was campaign treasurer for a state representative from Washington State. From 1987 to 1994, she was corporate controller of a public high-tech company with revenues of over $100 million.
Research and Communications Manager
Nancy Snow, MS, has a varied background in education (at several levels from preschool to medical school), website design, social justice activism and research. Her master's degree in instructional design is from Purdue University, where she also completed coursework toward a master's degree in cognitive psychology. She earned a certificate in web design in 2001. Nancy designs and maintains the ICEH websites, contributes to our Practice Prevention columns and edits our biweekly bulletins. She has been active in the many communities across eight states where she has resided.
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ICEH also contracts with consultants as necessary and establishes strong collaborative partnerships with other organizations to carry out specific projects. In addition, we have internship opportunities available for college graduates interested in enhancing their experience in and knowledge of the field of environmental health.
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Advisors
ICEH is fortunate to have two Advisory Board members who also volunteer their service as technical advisors. |
Science Advisor
Kate Davies, DPhil, serves on the core faculty in Environment & Community and as associate director at the Center for Creative Change at Antioch University Seattle. She has a doctoral degree in biochemistry from Oxford University in England and a Master of Arts in Cultural Anthropology and Social Transformation from the California Institute of Integral Studies.
Dr. Davies has worked on environmental health for more than 25 years, focusing on toxic chemicals, climate change and land use issues; communicating environmental science information to diverse audiences; developing and analyzing environmental policy; and engaging the public in environmental health decision-making processes. Since moving to Antioch University Seattle in 2002, she has been teaching the theory and practice of social change and applying ideas about social change to environmental health.
Dr. Davies served on the Washington State Department of Ecology's Advisory Rule-Making Committee on Persistent Bioaccumulative Toxics and is a member of several Boards of Directors of nonprofit environmental and environmental health organizations, including the Institute for Children's Environmental Health. She has received several local community service awards for her work.
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Medical Advisor
Larry B. Silver, MD, a child and adolescent psychiatrist, is in private practice in the Washington, DC, area. He is clinical professor of psychiatry at Georgetown University Medical Center. Prior to his current activities, he was acting director and deputy director of the National Institute of Mental Health of the National Institutes of Health, professor of psychiatry, professor of pediatrics and chief of the Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the Robert Wood Johnson School of Medicine. For more than 30 years his primary areas of research, clinical and teaching interest have focused on the psychological, social and family impact of a group of related, neurologically based disorders – learning disabilities, language disabilities, sensory integration dysfunction and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.
He has more than 150 publications, including the popular book The Misunderstood Child: A Guide for Parents of Children with Learning Disabilities, now in its fourth edition. His other books include Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder: A Clinical Guide to Diagnosis and Treatment for Health and Mental Health Professionals, in its third edition, and Dr. Larry Silver's Advice to Parents on Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, in its second edition. His two most recent books are co-edited with Dr. Frank Kline and are intended for general education teachers. The Educator's Guide to Medical Issues in the Classroom (2001) and The Educator's Guide to Mental Health Issues in the Classroom (2004) are published by Bookes Publishing Company.
Dr. Silver is active with the Learning Disabilities Association of America and is a past president of that organization. In 1992 he received the association's highest award, the Learning Disabilities Association Award, for outstanding leadership in the field of learning disabilities. In 1996 he received the Berman Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry for his contributions to the study and treatment of learning disabilities.
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Volunteer with ICEH
We welcome any assistance with these current projects:
- Translating documents into Spanish, especially our Practice Prevention columns. See our Resources page.
- Researching and compiling information about upcoming conferences, trainings, meetings and other events in environmental health. See our searchable Calendar of Events.
Contact iceh@iceh.org if you can help.
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