Fenika Miller
Hometown:
Warner Robins, GA
Connect: LinkedIn
Fenika eagerly anticipates the project's capacity to generate positive impact and enduring change, ensuring resources are utilized in transformative ways guided by community input and prioritizing the voices of those most affected. She is confident that, with unprecedented federal investment and collective effort, we can radically reimagine and revitalize neighborhoods, cities, counties, and states throughout the southern region.
Fenika Miller is a respected figure in social impact, leadership, and entrepreneurship amassing over three decades of experience in the political, private sector, and government spheres. Fenika holds an MBA from Wesleyan College and a bachelor’s degree in Political Science from Fort Valley State University. She earned executive certifications in Non-Profit Entrepreneurial Leadership and Power, Innovation & Leadership, further enriching the diversity of her skill set.
Her dedication to social impact, advocacy for Black women and girls, and grassroots organizational capacity and power-building with Black Voters Matter Fund, has made an enduring impact on numerous southern communities. This has positioned her as a notable champion for positive change and a respected figure in her field. Fenika is the visionary owner of Succeed Cowork – the first co-working community and entrepreneur incubator for women in Houston County.
ERC Project
Project Title:
Our Dollars, Our Dreams
Host Community or Region:
American South; multiple states (Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia)
Host Organization:
Southern Economic Advancement Project (SEAP)
The "Our Dollars, Our Dreams" campaign by SEAP is a crucial initiative focusing on equitable funding opportunities across the Southern states (Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia). As federal funding is allocated to communities across the nation—from broadband, climate action, microchips, and other investments—this project aims to empower Southern communities, organizations, and coalitions to secure these unprecedented resources. The ERC Fellow will support communities in building partnerships, creating equity frameworks, scoping projects, collecting data, grant strategies, and collaborating through peer-to-peer learning. With technical assistance, research support, community engagement, and facilitation, the fellow will drive strategies around bold, equitable goals and projects leading to the strategic advancement of communities' efforts to secure federal funds, fostering economic progress across the American South and in communities less equipped to compete for federal funds.
Interested in supporting this project or learning more? Contact the ERC program team here.
