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Jacob Miller

Tribal Lead
Vineyard Offshore

Jacob Miller is a Vineyard Offshore Tribal Lead. He works to build and maintain collaborative relationships and partnerships with tribal governments and members of tribal nations.

Jacob has many years of government and community development experience. He most recently worked as a Senior Policy Advisor and Community Development Director in the office of Massachusetts State Senator Mark Montigny, where he led numerous COVID-19 response efforts and built programming including a youth exchange between New Bedford, Massachusetts and Grimsby, United Kingdom. He has worked as a union organizer with the Greater Southeastern Massachusetts Labor Council AFL-CIO, a grassroots coordinator with Opportunity Nation, passed state health care expansion for college students, coordinated a capacity building organization SouthCoast Serves, wrote service learning curriculum, opened UMass Dartmouth's first student-run business Jumpin’ Juice, founded the Common Project that focuses on boosting millennial civic engagement, created workforce development programs connecting veterans to job opportunities, established biannual youth civic engagement summits, and has helped register hundreds of people to vote. He also served as an elected student representative to the UMass Board of Trustees.

Jacob holds a bachelor’s in Political Science and English from the University Massachusetts Dartmouth where he was named a Truman Scholar. He spent two years in the United Kingdom as a Marshall Scholar completing a master’s in management from the University of Cambridge and a master’s in Building and Urban Design in Development from the University College London. He completed his Juris Doctor degree at UMass Law in 2024.

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