PAWV’S 2014 AWARD WINNERS: MONICA MILLER

​Preservation Alliance of West Virginia would like to share about our 2014 Historic Preservation Award winners. Next, we recognize Monica Miller for the Preservation Achievement Award.

Monica is the Manager of Local Capacity Development for the West Virginia Development Office where she provides funding and technical assistance to local organizations and units of government to enhance their capacity to serve their constituents and improve West Virginia communities.

In addition to the Main Street West Virginia Program which she has managed since 1994, she secured funding for and led the creation of the West Virginia ON TRAC Program. She also provides management to the following community development programs:  Neighborhood Investment Program, Growing Healthy Communities, Appalachian Regional Commission and Flex E Grant.

She has provided Main Street consulting services to the states of Delaware, Arkansas, Maryland and New Hampshire.  Prior to her work in the Development Office she served as the Administrator of Programming Services and Sales for West Virginia State Parks.

Monica has served in many capacities with the National Trust for Historic Preservation, most recently as Chair of the Board of Advisors, member of the Board of Trustees and vice chair of the Community Revitalization Committee.  She served as the first Chair of the National Main Street Coordinating programs.  She currently serves on the Executive Committee of the Advisory Board of the WV SBDC, is a volunteer with the WV Land Trust, and served multiple terms on the Vestry of St Mark’s Episcopal Church.  A graduate of West Virginia University and the Economic Development Institute through the University of Oklahoma, Monica has been certified by the National Development Council as an Economic Development Finance Professional.

Congratulations, Monica.