Randall Miller

Randall Miller is senior program officer with the Haas, Jr. Fund. He helps oversee the Fund’s efforts to promote equal rights for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) individuals, with a focus on grantmaking in gay-affirming faith communities.

Randall’s LGBT work at the Fund is the latest chapter in a 25-year career promoting social justice and racial equity in religion, politics, HIV/AIDS work, academics and philanthropy. Randall joined the Fund after a decade of philanthropic leadership with Tides Foundation, Vanguard Public Foundation and the Community Health Investment Fund.

He has served as co-director of the National Youth Ministry Organization, a progressive, faith-based advocacy group; executive director of the National Task Force on AIDS Prevention, providing advocacy, education and training to communities of color; and the principal of Creative Management Associates, a consulting firm providing strategic guidance for nonprofits.

Currently, Randall serves on the board of the Reconciling Ministries Network and the steering committee of the Gay Men’s Issues in Religion Group for the American Academy of Religion. His numerous government advisory board positions have included the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Institute of Mental Health and the Office of Minority Health. Randall also has served on the boards of the San Francisco LGBT Center, Project Inform, the United Methodist Committee on Relief (UMCOR), and the African American Religious Roundtable for the Center for Lesbian and Gay Religious Studies.

Randall holds a Ph.D. in social ethics from the Graduate Theological School in Berkeley and a B.A. from Emory and Henry College in Virginia.