Megan Miller has enjoyed a career focused on youth empowerment, first as a Detroit Public School teacher, and later as Assistant Director of Acting, Education Director and currently as Director of Programs at Mosaic. After graduating from Oberlin College in 2001, Megan began working in the DPS system, teaching at the Foreign Language Immersion and Cultural Studies (FLICS) School and later at Sherrard. Even before coming to work for Mosaic, Megan sought to create opportunities for youth in the arts; starting a theatre and dance program for students at FLICS and organizing a cultural-artistic exchange trip for the Mosaic Singers to Senegal, West Africa in 2003. After moving abroad to study dance in Paris, France, Megan returned to Detroit to work at Mosaic. Under her leadership, Mosaic grew from serving 230 youth through First Stage programs in ‘03-’04 to over 1,000 youth in ’05-’06. She developed Mosaic’s first comprehensive training program for First Stage staff based on best practices in youth development and the Mosaic Model of Youth Development through the Arts. As a proud Mosaic alumnae (’93-’97), Megan knows first hand the transformative power of Mosaic’s programs and is thrilled to be part of an organization working hard to make a profound different in the lives of Detroit area youth.