North America

Director, ECHO North America Impact Center

Dr. Grace Ju Miller is passionate about ECHO’s mission to “reduce hunger and improve lives worldwide through partnerships that equip people with agricultural resources while practicing agroecology”. She was born in the Philippines and lived there for 10 years.  She was the Dean of the School of Natural and Applied Sciences at Taylor University in Upland, Indiana for the last five years. She was a Professor of Biology at Indiana Wesleyan University for nine years. Her research is focused on Moringa plant and its antibacterial qualities. She has spent time in Taiwan conducting research. Before moving to Indiana, Grace and her family lived in Morocco where she taught at a children’s home for two years. Grace was the Seed Bank Director at ECHO for four years, taught at Gordon College for eleven years, and has led a travel course — “Sustainable Tropical Agriculture” — in Guatemala, Honduras, and Haiti for 17 years. She has a BA in Art and Botany from Duke University, MS in Agronomy from UC Davis, and PhD from Purdue University.