Monica Miller

Monica Miller is the Legal Working Group Leader of the Nonhuman Rights Project. She graduated from Pitzer College in 2008 and from Columbia University in 2009 with a Masters in Public Administration (MPA) for Environmental Science and Policy. She is currently a third year law student at Vermont Law School.

In college, Miller founded the Pitzer Animal Welfare Society (PAWS), and in law school, she served as co-chair of the Animal Law Society (ALS). She also created the “Veg Pledge” program at Vermont Law School, which encourages student groups to go vegetarian throughout the school year.

In pursuit of her concern for civil rights and constitutional law, Miller has worked at the American Humanist Association’s legal center for the past two summers and for a semester in practice, assisting in First Amendment rights and constitutional equality litigation. She has written four amicus briefs on behalf of the AHA, two of which were filed in the United States Supreme Court.

Monica is currently a Dean’s Fellow at Vermont Law School where she is teaching legal writing to first-year law students.