Jonathan Miller, Bob Miller’s son, is the President of the Robert S. Miller Family Foundation for Justice and Equity. Jonathan was the first Jewish-Kentuckian ever elected to statewide office, serving two terms as Kentucky State Treasurer. This was the highlight of a long career in public service, serving in senior appointed roles including Secretary of the Kentucky Finance and Administration Cabinet, Chairman of the Kentucky Democratic Party, Deputy Chief of Staff of the U.S. Department of Energy, Legislative Director to Congressman Jim Cooper, and longtime political aide to Vice President Al Gore. Currently, Jonathan serves as Member-in-Charge of Frost Brown Todd’s Washington, D.C. law offices, where he has emerged as the nation’s leading lawyer and advocate for the reborn hemp industry, serving as General Counsel to the U.S. Hemp Roundtable, the industry’s advocacy organization. Jonathan authored three books, including the critically-regarded The Compassionate Community: Ten Steps to Unite America, and wrote regular columns for The Daily Beast, The Huffington Post and Kentucky Sports Radio. He is an accomplished poker player, having made the final table of a World Series of Poker tournament in 2012. Jonathan graduated with high honors from Harvard College and Harvard Law School.

Jennifer Miller, Bob’s daughter, serves as Vice President of the Robert S. Miller Family Foundation for Justice and Equity. Jennifer is an attorney, producer, and community activist. A graduate of Harvard College and Stanford Law School, Jennifer devoted her early career to federal government and Democratic politics. She worked on several presidential campaigns, for the U.S. Attorney General, at the Democratic National Committee, and twice in the Clinton-Gore White House. She also worked in the mass media practice at D.C. law firm Wiley, Rein & Fielding and remains licensed to practice law in Kentucky and the District of Columbia. Jennifer returned to Lexington, KY "temporarily" in 2002 to help care for her father when he was terminally ill. After her father's passing, she stayed on to teach as an adjunct instructor at the University of Kentucky, publish an animal welfare magazine, and serve on multiple nonprofit and government boards, including: Planned Parenthood of Kentucky, Pundit Productions, March Madness Marching Band, Actors Guild of Lexington, the Kentucky Heritage Council, and Local First Lexington. She also co-produced an independent feature film and has worked extensively with emerging professional musicians. Jennifer lives in Lexington, KY with her mobility service dog Yogi and her adopted terrier mix Max.

Emily Miller, Bob’s oldest granddaughter, serves as Secretary of the Robert S. Miller Family Foundation for Justice and Equity. Emily grew up in Lexington, Kentucky and graduated Miami University of Ohio in 2016 with a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology. After graduation, she joined Teach For America and taught in low-income settings while she worked on her Master of Arts in Teaching at Marian University in Indianapolis, IN. Emily graduated with her Masters in Early Childhood Education in 2018, and has worked at a dual-language charter school as a first grade teacher for the past four years.

Abigail Miller, Bob’s youngest granddaughter, serves as Treasurer of the Robert S. Miller Family Foundation for Justice and Equity. Abby is a visual artist and creative writer from Lexington, KY. She received a B.A. in Fine Arts from Haverford College in 2019. In 2020, she completed a fellowship in Philadelphia with ArtistYear, an AmeriCorps program that deploys teaching artists to low-income schools. Inspired by her Grandpa Bob’s passion for the environment and civil rights, she strives to communicate issues of environmental conservation and social justice in her art and writing. 

Penny Miller, Bob’s widow, is Professor Emeritus of Political Science at the University of Kentucky. A native of Binghamton, New York, she attended Wellesley College, married Bob in 1964, and earned her B.A. (1965) and M.A. (1967) in Political Science from the University of Kentucky. As a young woman, she founded the Metro Group Homes, served on the board of the Baby Health Service and the LFUCG Social Services Advisory Commission, co-chaired Lexington Jewish Women’s Federation, and devoted countless hours of service as a “professional volunteer.” When her children, Jonathan and Jennifer, were nearly grown, she returned to the Political Science Department to earn her Ph.D in 1986. After three years teaching at Temple University, she joined the UK faculty in 1990. A specialist in state politics, she wrote Kentucky Politics and Government: Do We Stand United? and co-authored with Malcolm Jewell, Political Parties and Primaries in Kentucky, and The Kentucky Legislature: Two Decades of Change. Governor Jones selected her to edit his official speeches, The Public Papers of Governor Brereton C. Jones 1991-1995. In addition, she served on the Mayor’s Local Government Ethics Advisory Committee, chaired the state’s Commission on Women and chaired the Kentucky Long Term Policy Research Center Board. President Bill Clinton appointed her to serve for eight years on the White House Commission on Presidential Scholars. When Bob Miller died in 2002, and Penny Miller later married Louisvillian Stuart Harris. In 2006, Miller moved to Bal Harbour, Florida, with Harris. After Harris’ passing in 2018, she moved to Palm Beach Gardens, where she has become involved with the Jewish Women’s Foundation, the Wellesley Book Club, and Jewish Women’s Philanthropy of the Palm Beaches. In October 2019, Miller was inducted into the UK College of Arts & Sciences Hall of Fame. Miller continues to give talks, enjoys travel, and spends quality time with her significant other, Ron Singer, and her children and granddaughters.

Lisa Miller, Bob’s daughter-in-law, is a community builder who specializes in women's mind-body health.  With expertise in interfaith chaplaincy, meditation, yoga, Ayurvedic health, and SoulCollage®, she brings to life perennial wisdom teachings that provide a compass for a life of meaning, intuition, and well-being in modern times. She's the author of The Heart of Leadership for Women: Cultivating a Sacred Space, and her 2021 podcast, The Women's Well, features ordinary extraordinary women whose life stories illuminate a path for us all.  More about Lisa: www.LisaMillerBeautifulDay.com.

Colmon Elridge is the Senior Vice President of Strategy, Equity, and Inclusion, for the KnowledgeWorks Foundation. Prior to his role, Colmon spent almost two decades in public service in the Commonwealth of Kentucky working on behalf of Kentuckians with mental disabilities, public education, and serving for eight years as the Executive Assistant and Senior Advisor to Governor Steve Beshear. In November of 2020, Colmon was nominated by Governor Andy Beshear to become the Chair of the Kentucky Democratic Party. Upon his election, Colmon became the first person of color to lead a major party in the Commonwealth of Kentucky. Colmon has also served as the National Committeeman for the Kentucky Young Democrats and served to terms as the Executive Vice-President of the Young Democrats of America. Colmon, his wife Victoria have four children, daughter Shaela (20), and sons Colmon (11), Carter (10), and Camden (3), and live in Georgetown, KY.

Silas House is the nationally bestselling author of six novels--Clay's Quilt, 2001; A Parchment of Leaves, 2003; The Coal Tattoo, 2005; Eli the Good, 2009; and Same Sun Here (co-authored with Neela Vaswani) 2012, and Southernmost (June 2018)--as well as a book of creative nonfiction--Something's Rising, co-authored with Jason Howard, 2009; and three plays.  House is a former commentator for NPR's "All Things Considered".  His writing has appeared recently in Time, The Atlantic, Ecotone, The Advocate, Garden and Gun, and Oxford American.  House serves on the fiction faculty at the Spalding School of Creative Writing and as the NEH Chair at Berea College.  He is a member of the Fellowship of Southern Writers, the recipient of three honorary doctorates, and is the winner of the Nautilus Award, an EB White Award, the Appalachian Book of the Year, the Storylines Prize from the New York Public Library/NAV Foundation, the Lee Smith Award, and many other honors, including an invitation to read at the Library of Congress. Southernmost was a longest finalist for the Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction and appeared on several the Best of 2018 lists of The Advocate, Booklist, Paste, Southern Living, Garden and Gun, and others.  The book was also awarded the Weatherford Award as well as the Judy Gaines Young Award. As a music journalist House has worked with artists such as Kacey Musgraves, Kris Kristofferson, Lucinda Williams, Jason Isbell, Leann Womack, Tyler Childers, and many others.  House is also host of the popular podcast "On the Porch".  In 2021 he was the recipient of the Governor's Award from Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear for his service to the arts in his home state.  

Jason Kyle Howard is the author of A Few Honest Words: The Kentucky Roots of Popular Music and co-author of Something's Rising: Appalachians Fighting Mountaintop Removal. His essays, features and commentary have appeared in the New York Times, Oxford American, Salon, The Nation, The Millions, Utne Reader, and other outlets, and his work has been featured on NPR and C-SPAN's Book TV. He worked in communications and speechwriting for a federal agency, where he also served as senior editor of Equal Justice Magazine, writing investigative articles on subjects such as the efforts of Eastern Kentucky miners to receive black lung benefits, assisted adoption cases in Manhattan, and an eminent domain case before the U.S. Supreme Court. Howard is editor of Appalachian Review, a literary quarterly based at Berea College, where he teaches and directs the creative writing program. He serves on the graduate faculty of the Spalding University School of Creative and Professional Writing, and holds degrees from The George Washington University, the University of Kentucky and Vermont College of Fine Arts. 

Nikki Lanier is the CEO of Harper Slade Racial Equity Advisory. Nikki’s experience includes serving as senior vice president of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, Personnel Cabinet Secretary for the Commonwealth of Kentucky (youngest and first black female gubernatorial appointee to this post), Chief Human Resources Officer for Charter Schools USA (FL), Vice Chancellor of Human Resources for Maricopa Community Colleges (AZ), Senior HR Executive, Philip Morris USA (VA) and Georgia-Pacific Corp. (GA) and other positions in both the health care and legal fields. Nikki earned a J.D. from the University of Miami School of Law and a bachelor’s degree in journalism from Hampton University in Virginia. She is deeply involved in the Louisville community and serves on the boards of numerous organizations including Greater Louisville Inc., the Louisville Regional Airport Authority, and the Board of Advisors of University of Louisville’s College of Business and Family Scholar House. Nikki is the chair of the board of the nonprofit OneWest, as well as serving as chair of the Kentucky Kerner Commission 2.0. She also serves on the LEAD360 business development team and the UNCF Louisville Leadership Council and is a member of the Kentucky International Women’s Forum and the Delta Sigma Theta Sorority Inc. In 2021, Nikki was named by Louisville Business First as one of the region’s Power 50. In addition, she was inducted into the publication’s Forty Under 40 Hall of Fame and has appeared on their Women of Influence and Notable Financial Executives lists. Nikki has also been honored with the Presentation Academy’s Tower Award, the Robert C. Burks Distinguished Business and Leadership Award and has been recognized as one of the 10 Most Influential Women of Louisville.

Mahjabeen Rafiuddin is the Director, Diversity Equity Inclusion, People and Culture at the Walt Disney Company. She has twenty years of experience in diversity training and consultancy in corporate, non-profit and educational sectors. Prior to Disney, she served as the Director of Office of Multicultural Affairs at Rollins College. At the college, she led efforts to expand and offer diversity based leadership training development to students, faculty and staff. Mahjabeen served as the Director for Student Diversity Engagement at the University of Kentucky. She was also the Associate Executive Director for Kentucky chapter of the National Conference for Community and Justice (NCCJ) formerly known as the National Conference for Christians and Jews. She coordinated all aspects of diversity and inclusion training development for youth and adult at colleges, public/private school systems and civil rights agencies. She was the co-founder of the Lexington Youth Leadership Academy (LYLA) -- a three-year premier diversity program for high school teens. She received four major awards for her service one is the “Drum Major for Peace Award”, sponsored by the Lexington Commission on Race Relations, “Sullivan Medallion” for public service, which was sponsored by the University of Kentucky and “MOSAIIC” award for service from the Bluegrass Technical College System. Mahjabeen’s professional aim to educate and empower individuals in the areas of cross-cultural understanding, appreciation of diversity and active c community involvement originated from her experience of being a first-generation immigrant. She currently resides in Orlando, however holds fond memories of her engagement with many in Lexington, Kentucky and surrounding areas.

Michael Steele, when he was elected Lt. Governor of Maryland in 2003, made history as the first African American elected to statewide office; and again with his subsequent chairmanship of the Republican National Committee in 2009. As chairman of the RNC, Michael was charged with revitalizing the Republican Party. A self-described "Lincoln Republican," under Michael’s leadership the RNC broke fundraising records (over $198 million raised during the 2010 Congressional cycle) and Republicans won 63 House seats, the biggest pickup since 1938. His commitment to grassroots organization and party building at the state and local levels produced 12 governorships and the greatest share of state legislative seats since 1928 (over 760 seats). As Lt. Governor of Maryland, Michael’s priorities included reforming the state's Minority Business Enterprise program, improving the quality of Maryland's public education system (he championed the State’s historic Charter School law), expanding economic development in the state and fostering cooperation between government and faith-based organizations to help those in need. Michael’s ability as a communicator and commentator has been showcased through his current role as a political analyst for MSNBC. He has appeared on Meet the Press, Face the Nation, HBO's Real Time with Bill Maher, and Comedy Central's The Daily Show. In addition to his work in television, Mr. Steele co-hosted the daily radio program, Steele & Ungar on the POTUS Channel on SiriusXM and is the host of the podcast The Michael Steele Podcast. Mr. Steele’s writings on law, business and politics have appeared in The Wall Street Journal, The Hill.com, The Grio.com, Politico.com, The Root.com, BET.com, Townhall.com, The Journal of International Security Affairs and Catholic University Law Review, among others. He is the author of Right Now: A 12-Step Program for Defeating the Obama Agenda, which is a call to arms for grassroots America and co-author of The Recovering Politician’s Twelve Step Program to Survive Crisis. Born at Andrews Air Force Base in Prince George’s County, Maryland, Michael was raised in Washington, DC. Upon graduating Johns Hopkins University (‘81’), he entered the Order of St. Augustine where studied for the priesthood. He is a graduate of Georgetown Law Center (’91), an Aspen Institute Rodel Fellow in Public Leadership, a University of Chicago Institute of Politics Fellow and currently a Senior Fellow at Brown University’s Institute for International and Public Affairs.