Joelle Miller's Biography

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Joelle Miller is an urban planning master's candidate at New York University, focusing on how to create greener and healthier spaces for low-income residents. She graduated from California State University (CSU) San Marcos with a B.S. in environmental science in 2017. As an undergraduate, her research focused on food apartheids in lower income communities, the effect of pesticides on farm workers, and the cause of Flint Michigan's water contamination.

After graduation from CSU, Joelle gained professional experience as a constituent services representative for the New York State Assembly and by working for Urban Development (an urban planning company) and the New York City Housing Authority. She is currently interested in how to use zoning ordinances to protect communities from environmental health hazards and to ensure all communities have outdoor amenities.

Joelle became a 2021-2022 Community Board 11 Planning Fellow through the Fund for the City of New York.