Rick Miller – Board Member  

Rick Miller is a principal and founding Partner with Capitol Impact, a Sacramento-based consulting firm that offers expertise and experience in developing, executing, and managing successful social impact initiatives.

       Leadership

With Capitol Impact, Miller serves as the Chief Executive Officer of CORE Districts a learning partnership between large California school districts representing over a million students, which Miller founded in 2010. The CORE districts collaborate to solve inequities and ensure every student has what they need to thrive. Among their accomplishments was becoming the only set of districts in the country to receive a No Child Left Behind waiver from the federal government.

Prior to joining Capitol Impact, Miller served as a Deputy State Superintendent at the California Department of Education. In this position, Miller developed policy recommendations on promising ways to improve student achievement throughout California specifically focused on closing the state’s achievement gaps from Pre-K to Higher Education.

Previously Miller worked at Microsoft Corporation developing communications strategies on privacy, security, and overall corporate image. Miller also served as a strategic communications advisor to the Chancellor of the California State University System (CSU). Prior to working at CSU, Miller served the U.S. Department of Education as Press Secretary to Richard W. Riley, then-Secretary of Education. Miller also spent time during those years periodically detailed to the White House Office of Advance where he traveled domestically and internationally on behalf of President Bill Clinton.

Miller currently serves on the boards of the Placer County Food Bank and the Alliance for Regional Collaboration to Heighten Educational Success (ARCHES.) Miller was also elected as a Trustee for the Rocklin Unified School District in 2018 and served a four-year term.

Miller lives in Rocklin, California with his wife Julie, an elementary school speech therapist. They have two sons, the oldest a senior at the University of Washinton and youngest in his second year at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena.