Robin Miller

Robin Miller

Ms. Miller has dedicated her professional career to advancing design, community, cultural, and academic organizations with her extensive leadership, artistic, and technical expertise.

As the principal of Miller Design Group, Robin has managed the corporate growth of the Philadelphia based agency providing lighting design and professional services to architectural, theatrical and interior design industries. Robin’s international network and experience includes a role as Managing Director of London, England’s Blue Thunder Lighting, where she directed all aspects of developing the national customer database and designing pioneering sales methods for this unique theatrical supplies company. Locally, Ms. Miller serves as a volunteer lighting designer for Community Design Collaborative, and as a member of the Real Estate and Design committee for Germantown United Community Development Corporation.

In the fields of education and academia, Robin is an Adjunct Professor at Drexel University, the Community Development Instructor for Jumpstart North Philly West, has served as an educational consultant and regional coordinator for KP Scholars Program, and held the role of Program Assistant at The University of Pennsylvania’s School of Arts and Sciences for the International Teaching Assistants and Fulbright Scholars programs.

Ms. Miller received a Bachelor of Arts in Management of Information Systems from Eastern University, a Graduate Certificate in Information Technology from New York University and a Master of Science in Education from University of Pennsylvania. She is a member of the Society of Light and Lighting, the Institution of Lighting Professionals, and other professional organizations. Robin also served on the Environmental Sustainability Advisory Council of the University of Pennsylvania’s Graduate and Professional Student Assembly and as a student representative on the New York University Graduate Student Council.

Robin is the recipient of several awards including the American Institute of Architects Philadelphia 2017 Community Design Award, the 2016 Community Design Collaborative Outstanding Team Award, 2012 Illuminating Engineering Society(IES) Philadelphia Section Certificate of Merit for The President’s House, a University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education Scholarship Grant, Parsons School of Design University Scholarship, New York University SCPS Dean’s Scholarship, and the International Communications Industry Association (ICIA) Scholarship. She has also served as a panel judge for the IES Philadelphia section 2022 Philament Awards, as a stakeholder technical specifications reviewer for Lighting Africa, and as an alumni admissions interviewer for the University of Pennsylvania.