Sarah Miller

Sarah serves as Margrave Strategies Vice President of Economic Development. For the past 25 years, Sarah has worked across Pennsylvania and Maryland creating high-quality civic spaces, helping industrial communities reinvent themselves, managing free clinics, supporting new farmers and food producers, building technology business incubators, and managing local public art programs.

Prior to joining Margrave Strategies, she was the Vice President of Economic Development for BioHealth Innovation, Inc., a regional non-profit created to advance technology commercialization in the DMV. Immediately before that she was the Vice President of Strategy for the Montgomery County Economic Development Corporation, the lead economic development agency for the most populous county in Maryland. She also worked for many years at the former Montgomery County Department of Economic Development, where she created and managed several capital projects and strategic initiatives. 

Sarah spent more than a decade in Pennsylvania, where she was appointed the Special Assistant to the Secretary of the Pennsylvania Department of Community and Economic Development, and managed riverfront projects in downtown Pittsburgh.  Her Pittsburgh work included implementing the Regional Destination Financing Plan, which effectively transformed the city’s interactions with its riverfronts and redefined sustainable design in the city.

Sarah studied community health at Ohio University and participated in the New York City Health Research Training Program, one of the oldest and largest public health programs in the country. She also served for a year in AmeriCorps, before earning a master’s degree from Carnegie Mellon University.

Locally, Sarah has served her community as a Rockville Planning Commissioner, a youth cross country coach, a guest lecturer at Georgetown, and a board member for the Montgomery County Food Council and Bethesda Green.  She and her husband, Craig, live in Rockville with their son, Zak.