Kellea Miller, Board President, Community Beyond Violence

Host Brian Buckley interviews Kellea Miller, who grew up in Tahoe Vista and was familiar with the Western slope of the Sierra from visits to Victorian Christmas as a kid. Raised with 4 siblings by a devout Buddhist mom, a Russian Jew dad from New Jersey and a step-mom raised Catholic, she grew up with a wide perspective on the world. Spreading her wings to travel, live and work in areas like New York, the Bay Area and LA eventually led her back to the Sierras in Nevada County to finish her PhD dissertation and raise her kids. She received her PhD in Sociology from University of Wisconsin at Madison and holds degrees in Public Policy and Feminist Studies. Her work in international human rights spans the globe. (Her coworkers from around the world often remark that, for an American, she has a surprising amount of electricity and internet outages!) A passionate promoter of women’s rights, she connected with Community Beyond Violence in 2016 through their Crisis Intervention Training, joined the board in 2019 and became Board President in 2020. She is working to bring the dark truth of domestic and sexual violence out of the shadows and to increase the visibility of CBV in our community.