Michelle Miller

Overview

Michelle Miller is a workers' rights activist and participatory media artist. She is the co founder of Coworker.org a digital platform that supports innovative ground up campaigns for workplace change. Michelle's early work developing Coworker.org was supported by a fellowship at Georgetown University's Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor. Before that she spent a decade at the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) directing union wide programs for member engagement. She focused her energy on fostering the talents of rank and file union members creating projects that welcomed new kinds of worker leaders and integrated their voices into campaigns through art culture and media. Her experience taught her that the best ideas solutions and strategies for changing the workplace come directly from the lived experiences of workers themselves. Michelle also applies this approach to her creative process. She developed the participatory media creation process for HOLLOW a Peabody Award winning interactive documentary created with residents of McDowell County in her homestate of West Virginia. She is a member of Arts and Democracy a decentralized network of cultural organizers.