Meet WVEC’s Newest Board Members

WVEC welcomes three members to its Board of Directors! They bring a wealth of experience in environmental justice, sustainability, and public health:

Morgan King

Born and raised in Charleston, Morgan is currently the Climate and Energy Program Manager at West Virginia Citizen Action Group, working on petrochemicals, hydrogen, CCUS (Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage), and community air monitoring. Previously, she worked on climate issues in the state with the Climate Reality Project and the West Virginia Rivers Coalition. American University and the National Wildlife Federation also selected her for the Carbon Removal Justice Fellowship, which aimed to center environmental justice in carbon removal policy. Her academic background focused on improving access to clean water and energy and ensuring a just transition to address the climate emergency. Morgan is a Fulbright and Marshall scholar, opportunities which allowed her to live in Spain and England for three years after college. In Madrid, she introduced the Sustainable Development Goals to high schoolers. She earned a master’s degree in environmental systems engineering from University College London and a master’s in public policy from the University of Cambridge. She has a degree in civil engineering from West Virginia University. In her free time, she enjoys playing sports, hiking, and spending time with her two cats and dog.

Olivia Miller

Highlands’ natural beauty sparked Olivia’s deep connection to nature and lifelong passion for conservation. She holds a Bachelor of Science in Journalism from West Virginia University, where she began organizing around environmental justice and reproductive rights. Olivia now serves as Program Director of the West Virginia Highlands Conservancy, where she works to engage a new generation of environmental activists and ensure a thriving future for the Mountain State. She also serves on the boards of the Highlands Trail Foundation and the Allegheny-Blue Ridge Alliance. She currently lives in Morgantown.

Bill Price

A resident of the southern West Virginia Mountains for over 30 years, Bill has worked with grassroots groups addressing irresponsible coal-mining methods in the coal-producing region of Central Appalachia, as well as with groups working on social justice issues ranging from healthcare to childhood poverty. Bill currently serves as the secretary of the Buckhannon River Watershed Association’s Board.

Bill became active in the environmental movement in 2001 after flooding heavily damaged the community of Dorothy, WV, where he lived. The failure of a large sediment pond on a mountaintop removal mining operation directly above this small community contributed to the severity of the flood, which destroyed and damaged several hundred homes in the valley downstream. 

In 2003, Bill had the opportunity to begin working with the Sierra Club’s Environmental Justice Program. In 2018, Bill was promoted to Field Organizing Manager, working with organizers in South Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia. As a team, they were tasked with building a base of Sierra Club members, community leaders, and supporters for the Beyond Coal to Clean Energy, Ready for 100, Healthy Communities, and Beyond Dirty Fuels campaigns. Bill has also worked with the Alliance for Appalachia on the Federal Policy, Leadership Development, and Economic Diversification teams, and facilitated community organizing workshops, strategy meetings, and visioning sessions. 

Bill co-facilitated Diversity and Dismantling Racism workshops nationwide for over 15 years. In 2016, he was honored with an award by the Equity Support Team of the Sierra Club for years of dedication to training and growing the “Dismantling Racism” training work within the Sierra Club. He was trained, along with Rita Harris, in diversity and inclusion for non-profits and businesses, and also served as a mentor and coach for the WV Trainers Project, which provides training-of-trainers programs on social activism in WV. 

In June 2023, after 20 years, Bill retired from his Sierra Club staff position but remains active as a volunteer (and current Conservation Chair) with the WV Chapter of the Sierra Club. Bill recently graduated with a master’s degree in Applied Community Development from Future Generation University based in Franklin, WV. He lives with his wife and a menagerie of animals on a small farm near Rock Cave in Upshur County, West Virginia.