Trisha Miller is the Chief Executive Officer of DC Green Bank, where she is in charge of leading the entire team and expanding the scope and scale of the institution’s climate and community impacts. She recently served as a Senior Director in the White House Domestic Climate Policy Office, where she led industrial and building decarbonization policy for the Biden-Harris Administration and supported national partnerships. She also co-chaired the Federal Buy Clean Task Force. Previously, Trisha was the Chief Innovation and Development Officer at Elevate, a national organization dedicated to ensuring that the benefits of clean energy reach those who need them most. Prior, she served as a Senior Director at Gates Ventures, the private office of Bill Gates, as well as at Breakthrough Energy.
Trisha is an expert in climate and energy solutions and served as a Senior Advisor at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) in the Obama-Biden Administration, where she worked on the Climate Action Plan. At HUD, she oversaw the expansion of the Better Buildings Challenge to the multifamily sector and led a federal initiative to triple the amount of renewable energy reaching low-income communities. Prior to this role, Trisha also managed the National Green Communities Program at Enterprise Community Partners, where she helped in the development of 20,000 green affordable homes. Before joining Enterprise, Trisha launched and ran the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights’ Community Development Initiative, which provided legal services to thousands of individuals across the Gulf Coast.
She holds a J.D. from Stanford Law School, a Master of City Planning from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a B.A. from the University of Michigan. Trisha enjoys teaching and mentoring students, having previously held adjunct faculty positions at Georgetown University and George Washington University.