CMEI Colloquium
Longfellow Hall, Harvard Graduate School of Education
March 4, 2015
After prosecuting high profile political corruption cases in Florida, Dr. Carla Miller began a quest to discover what could reverse local government corruption. She chaired her city's Ethics Commission and wrote laws that required ethics training. It quickly became clear that sporadic training by lawyers was ineffective and resented. Optimistically, she volunteered to set up an Ethics Office to integrate the training into a more comprehensive program. After several controversial cases, Carla organized a citizen coalition that established an independent ethics office. She now directs this office which has a goal to elevate ethics education from "window dressing" to a force for change in local government. Carla has trained thousands of government employees in ethics and has fought lobbyists, big business, and union interests in their dealings with local government. She understands through personal experience the meaning and impact of institutional corruption and what can be done to reverse it.
Speaker Biography:
Carla Miller is the founder and president of City Ethics, an organization devoted to the establishment of government ethics programs across the United States, Europe and Australia.
