Principal Planner, Sustainability, Resilience, and Restoration
Ms. Miller is a Principal Planner with Marstel-Day, LLC and supports Sustainable Planning and Design Services, as well as Environmental Resilience and Ecosystem Restoration efforts. Her work centers on facilitating and developing partnerships and collaborations that promote healthy, sustainable communities both in the US and abroad. She works with clients and partners to promote resilience, protect critical resources and realize sustainable planning and management goals for climate change adaptation, community resilience, strategic conservation and operational efficiency.
Ms. Miller has led natural resource conservation, watershed protection, land use management, regenerative agriculture and sustainable development and policy initiatives for two decades. She specializes in functional urban landscapes and best practices, as well as sustainability and resilience planning. Ms. Miller is an experienced project manager for land use planning and management, ecosystem services accounting, coastal restoration, agricultural efficiency and community-based conservation. She also served as a technical advisor to the United Nations and other international organizations. Much of her career has been at the nexus of higher education, municipal government and community development, including leadership positions at Texas State University’s Meadows Center for Water and the Environment and Alamo College’s Center for Community and Environmental Sustainability (William R. Sinkin Eco Centro). She also serves as the Director of Operations for The International Institute for Sustainable Water Resources, a not-for-profit think tank focused on holistic water policy and management. Ms. Miller holds a BS in Agricultural and Applied Economics, with emphasis on Natural Resources Management from the University of Georgia, and an MS in Biology and Aquatic Resources Management from Texas State University where her research informed regional water resource planning and conservation strategies, as well as state legislation for environmental in-stream flows protection processes.