Samuel A. Miller

Samuel A. Miller

Samuel A. Miller has had an exceptional career as a presenter, producer, leader of arts funding organizations and consultant in the not-for-profit field of the arts. From 2004 to 2009 he served as President and CEO of Leveraging Investments in Creativity (LINC). Before that he served as Executive Director of the New England Foundation for the Arts for ten years. During that tenure, Mr. Miller pioneered a number of nationally significant programs, including the National Dance Project and the Cambodian Artists Project. Under his leadership NEFA also launched important new projects in New England like the Creative Economy Initiative (a project gathering information about the contribution of NPO arts activities to the New England economy to confirm the importance of these NPO activities) and Expeditions (a program which disseminates information and uses arts support funding to support touring of interdisciplinary arts projects in the New England region). Prior to NEFA, Mr. Miller served as Managing Director and then Executive Director and President at Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival (1986-95), one of America’s leading summer festivals.