Katherine Lay Miller was born and raised in Chattanooga, TN where she graduated from the Baylor School. She earned her B.A. at the University of Tennessee in academic psychology with a minor in ecology and evolutionary biology. A lifelong learner, while working for three years as a Head Start teacher and social worker in Knox county she studied to have her degree related to early childhood education. She then moved to Nashville, where she worked at Harding Academy for ten years. While doing so, she earned her M.A. at Lipscomb University’s College of Leadership and Public Service where her passion for international aid was born during a travel course studying social justice in the European Union. Discussions centered around humanitarian law at the International Red Cross Headquarters, policy at the World Trade Organization, refugee immigration at the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, peacekeeping at Vredespaleis and leadership accountability at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia & the International Criminal Court fueled her desire to help on a global scale. She then became the first appointed Executive Director of the Nashville branch of the world's largest nonprofit distributor of donated medical supplies, equipment and services to healthcare professionals in more than 135 countries. A photographer on the side, Katherine also currently serves as the partnership liaison for the Junior League of Nashville and the Monroe Carrell Jr. Children's Hospital at Vanderbilt, on the Conservation Committee of the Nashville Zoo at Grassmere, Climate Reality Leadership Corps, as well as the parent organizations of her children’s schools.