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Cohort 8

Jurisdiction: Town of Carrboro

University: UNC - Chapel Hill

Hometown: Boone, NC

Lucy Miller serves as a Lead for North Carolina Fellow with the Town of Carrboro, where she supports local history preservation, municipal sustainability, and community climate action. During her fellowship, Lucy will help develop the Carrboro Oral History Project by conducting interviews, organizing and preserving digital materials, creating archival documentation, and developing public-facing resources such as website content, displays, and presentations. She will also manage the Town’s municipal Greenhouse Gas Inventory by collecting and analyzing energy, fleet fuel, and street-lighting data and presenting her findings to Town leadership and the Town Council. In addition, Lucy will support the Green Neighborhood Grant, Energy Connectors, and Energy Efficiency Mini-grant programs through community outreach, grant administration, performance measurement, and program reporting. Through these projects, she is gaining hands-on experience in oral history, project management, grant management, data analysis and visualization, public communication, and community engagement while helping Carrboro preserve its cultural heritage, measure progress toward its climate goals, and expand resident participation in sustainability initiatives.

ucy Miller graduated with highest honors from UNC-Chapel Hill with degrees in Political Science and Public Policy. A Buckley Public Service Scholar and former Global Gap Year Fellow, Lucy focused on civic education and voting rights research, culminating in an honors thesis on felony disenfranchisement and electoral participation.

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