Biografia autore
As the Director of the SALT Center at the University of Arizona, Gabrielle E. Miller, EdD leads one of the nation’s most prestigious programs for undergraduates who learn differently. Dr. Miller leads a large multi-disciplinary team of professionals providing a comprehensive range of services to students with learning and attention challenges. Her responsibilities include successful engagement of internal and external stakeholders, ensuring both program integrity and innovation, securing additional funding, and extending the reach of the SALT model to a wide range of constituents.
Prior to her current role, Dr. Miller spent ten years in the nonprofit world, first as VP of Programs at Reading Is Fundamental and, for the last nine years, leading Raising A Reader(RAR) National Office; first as Executive Director then as President and CEO.
Prior to entering the nonprofit world, Dr. Miller spent more than fifteen years assuming progressively more responsible roles in special education clinical service, program administration and graduate teacher training/research at The Kennedy Krieger Institute (KKI) and The Johns Hopkins University (JHU). During her time at KKI she began as a classroom teacher and ultimately held a leadership role in the development of a model school-to-work secondary program for students with multiple and complex disabilities (Kennedy Krieger High School). Simultaneously, she taught core courses and assumed practicum supervision responsibilities in JHU’s Graduate School of Education and was awarded a tenure track faculty joint-appointment to both JHU’s Graduate School of Education and KKI’s Department of Special Education.
Dr. Miller began her career as a special education teacher in Queen Anne’s County Maryland where her interests in transition at all stages of development (early education, adolescent and post-secondary), family engagement, and research to practice began. Dr. Miller began her career as a teacher in the Queen Anne's County, Maryland public school system.
She earned her bachelor's degree in elementary and special education from the University of Delaware and completed her Masters and Doctorate in special education and administration at The Johns Hopkins University. She currently serves as a founding board member of the National Association of Family, School and Community Engagement (NAFSCE) and on the National Board of Learning Disabilities Association of America.