Katherine Miller

Courses: Leadership, Engagement, and Impact; Making Change in the Food System: Leadership Perspectives.

Named an industry leader and “Fixer” by Grist magazine and called one of the most innovative women in food and beverage by Fortune and Food & Wine magazines, Katherine was the founding executive director of the Chef Action Network and the vice president of impact at the James Beard Foundation.

The first food policy fellow at American University’s Sine Institute of Policy and Politics, she is also a Distinguished Terker Fellow at George Washington University’s School of Media and Public Affairs.

Her book, At the Table: The Chef’s Guide to Advocacy (Island Press), is considered a must-read by Food Tank and received a media award nomination from the James Beard Foundation in 2024.

Katherine works at the intersections of policy, politics, and social impact. She develops and manages award-winning campaigns, trains activists around the world, and helps deliver millions of supporters—and hundreds of millions in funding—to efforts focused on global health, climate change, gender bias and violence, and food system reform. At the heart of all of Katherine’s work is her passion for helping communities tackle seemingly intractable problems using all the tools available to them, including grantmaking, training, communications, policy, and advocacy campaigns. Her clients include individual philanthropists, institutional foundations, non-profits, and socially responsible companies.

Her work has received numerous awards, including a People’s Choice Webby, Best Non-Profit Tagline of the Year, and PR Grassroots Campaign of the Year. She and her work have been featured in media outlets around the world, including the Stanford Social Innovation Review, The New York Times, Financial Times, The Australian, ABC News, CNN, The Economist, O Magazine, Le Monde, and Glamour.

Katherine holds an undergraduate degree from Loyola University in New Orleans. She also holds a graduate certificate in Crisis Communication from Georgetown University and is a Chartered Advisor in Philanthropy (American College of Financial Services).