As Project Manager for the Government Team, Rachel Snyder Miller brings a passion for good writing and advocacy to work each day. She enriches Milepost with broad cross-sector experiences from the education and nonprofit worlds.
After earning her Master's in Public Administration (MPA) from UNC-Chapel Hill, Rachel moved out of a decade as a high school English teacher into the nonprofit sector and then as a grant writer, but her MPA work sparked her lifelong love of the public sector, from public power to state energy offices.
Now, she works for government clients who move the needle toward equity in the clean energy transition, fulfilling a dream she had in a classroom a decade ago to work for upstream change. She has managed complex federal applications over her tenure at Milepost from a variety of agencies, from DOE to EPA. Rachel continues to help clients write and implement federal grants, as well as her favorite MPA data quartet: collection, analysis, recommendation, and visualization. She loves making statistics matter by putting them in the context of greater issues and making them beautiful! Consulting also hearkens back to Rachel’s days in the classroom as she coaches client teams on better practices (rather than best), engages stakeholders effectively, and aids in strategic planning processes.
Rachel calls Knoxville, TN home and loves hiking in the Smoky Mountains with her daughter and husband. A self-professed local government nerd, she is a huge fan of Leslie Knope and thinks Galentine’s Day should be a national holiday: waffles for all.
