Tamar Miller is Project Lead for the Goldziher Prize for Journalists, is a social benefit program consultant and organizer. Her practice has ranged from working with the Center for Contemplative Mind in Society, introducing Harvard and MIT faculty to meditation as a pedagogic practice; to crafting a parliamentary campaign in Kuwait; to strategic evaluations for the Fetzer Institute’s science and spirituality unit.
Miller was VP Education and one of three founders of American Higher Education, Inc. based in Cambridge, MA., and was Partner in Middle East Holdings, a business development firm in Boston and Dubai. Miller is former Director of Leadership Development and Executive Director of the Institute for Social and Economic Policy in the Middle East at Harvard's Kennedy School.
She is active on the board of directors of the Parents’ Circle for Bereaved Families, and Combatants for Peace. Miller was on the founding board of the Alliance for Middle East Peace and is a senior advisor to TRACK TWO: An Institute for Citizen Diplomacy.
Miller holds a B.A. in Philosophy and Judaic Studies, Master of Social Work from Yeshiva University, and a Master of Public Administration from Harvard University.