Maya Miller

Research Assistant

Goldsmith Sustainable Agriculture Fund

Maya Miller is a senior from Laurel, MD, majoring in environmental studies with a concentration in environmental policy and application. She is a Benjamin Franklin Scholar and co-president of the Penn Alt Protein Project, a student club focused on sustainability in the food system through education, research, and collaboration.

She won the 2025 Pennsylvania Association of Environmental Professionals Zulene Mayfield Scholarship, which is awarded to an underprivileged student in an environmental science-related discipline in Pennsylvania. Maya interned with Penn’s Center for the Advanced Study of India, working with the S M Sehgal Foundation on a biochar project to enhance soil fertility and crop growth. In the future, she plans on conducting research to assess and improve the interactions between agriculture and the environment. She currently serves as a Climate + Agriculture Exchange Research Assistant with the Kleinman Center and Penn Climate.