Stephanie Miller is the the Principal of Miller Philanthropy Craft, specializing in family philanthropy and systems change grant making and convening. She has delivered large and small scale advising to a wide range of private grantmakers in areas such as education, wrongful conviction, children of war, gun control and the environment. She is also the Executive Director of Trust for Learning, a national collaborative grant making foundation focusing on early childhood education. She has been working in the field of strategic philanthropy for twenty years, focusing on collaborative grantmaking in education and community development. Raised in Montreal, Stephanie received a graduate degree from McGill University and has spent her working life as a grant seeker, grantmaker and on the ground as a local and national community worker in Canada, the U.S. and overseas. Stephanie founded a national network of community literacy education organizations that served marginalized communities across the country. At the J.W. McConnell Family Foundation, Canada’s largest private family foundation, she focused primarily on building national, multi-year, proactive education initiatives. In the corporate sector, she also worked with Manifest Communications, using social marketing as a vehicle for leveraging collective cross-sectoral action for non-profit organizations and causes. Stephanie is raising her two children in Weston, Connecticut – and it is her favorite job.