Anna-Lisa Miller is the founding Executive Director of Ownership Works, a nonprofit that partners with companies and investors to implement broad-based employee ownership programs that create economic opportunity for workers, increase racial equity, and strengthen companies and communities in the process. With a longstanding commitment to driving systemic change that expands shared ownership and advances racial equity, Anna-Lisa has a proven record of developing organizations, programs, and partnerships that create social returns for stakeholders and communities. In previous roles, Anna-Lisa served as Development Director at Project Equity and as Chief Operating Officer of The Kohala Center, for which she received recognition from the Hawaii State Senate for her role on the Executive Committee of the Hawaii Farm to School Initiative. Anna-Lisa began her career as a corporate attorney at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison. In 2014, she transitioned to the nonprofit sector to pursue her passion for expanding economic opportunity. Born in Trinidad & Tobago and raised in England and the United States, Anna-Lisa received a Juris Doctor degree from New York University School of Law and a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from the University of Pennsylvania.
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