Dear Student,
The members of the Division of Student Diversity and Inclusion and Admissions are excited to introduce and welcome Vernon Miller as the new Indigenous Center Director. Vernon arrives on March 8, 2022. He will be located in the Indigenous Center at 112 Packard Ave, Medford, Mass.
Vernon Miller is a member of the Thunder Clan from the Omaha Tribe of Nebraska & Iowa. Prior to joining Tufts University as the Director of the Indigenous People Center, Miller was an Area Coordinator for Cornell University’s South Campus (upper-level and transfer student populations), Assistant Director for Cornell’s Pre-freshmen Summer Program, and Residence Hall Director for Akwe:kon, the American Indian/Indigenous program house at Cornell. Miller received his Master of Science in Counseling & Student Development from Kansas State University in 2019, and his Bachelor of Science in Business Education from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in 2006. In addition, he recently served as President of the Omaha Nation Public Schools Board of Education on the Omaha Indian Reservation.
In 2016, Miller completed a 3-year term where he was elected to the Omaha Tribal Council in November 2013, and in November 2014, Miller was then further elected as the Tribal Chairman of the Omaha Tribe. While Chairman, he was a member of the Great Plains Tribal Chairman’s Association and Great Plains Tribal Chairman’s Health Board. Miller concurrently advised the Obama Administration while serving on the Tribal Interior Budget Council for the U.S. Department of Interior, the U.S. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration Tribal Technical Advisory Council, the National Institutes of Health Tribal Consultation Advisory Council, and the U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary’s Tribal Advisory Committee. In addition, Miller sat on the Executive Board of the National Congress of American Indians.
Miller is also a previous National Racial Equity & Healing Fellow with the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, an Americans for Indian Opportunity 2010-2011 Ambassador, and a 2016 Fellow with the New Leader’s Council: Omaha Chapter.
With best wishes,
Division of Student Diversity and Inclusion
Admissions
