Helen Miller joined ARCS MWC in September and is sponsored by Michelle Francis. She greatly enjoyed her first SAR event last month and looks forward to getting to know the ARCS community!

Helen earned a BA in French Language and Literature from Davidson College in 1988. Following college, she gravitated to Washington, DC, and worked in health policy for several years, including with The Jackson Hole Group during the health care reform efforts of the Clinton Administration. She then headed to Dartmouth College, where she earned an MS degree in the Evaluative Clinical Sciences in 1996. Helen worked with Johns Hopkins Medicine in health research and analysis before joining a cancer disease management company based in Tysons Corner (now part of Optum Health). Helen left that company in 2014 to focus on her family. Working in health policy and health research furthered Helen’s interest in health issues, medicine, and STEM in general.

Helen met her husband, Glenn Miller, in the Washington, DC area and they married in 1999. They moved to McLean in 2001, where they have since lived and raised their three children. She has long been an active volunteer in the community and at her children’s schools. She gravitated to communications roles, including five years editing the Franklin Sherman Elementary School PTA newsletter and managing the transition to a digital format, and seven years as a Langley eNewsletter team member. Over the years with the Langley eNews, Helen worked with both Jane Riddle and Michelle Francis. 

Helen’s other volunteer roles included three years on the Franklin Sherman Elementary School PTA Board, parent coordinator of the Cooper Middle School Spelling Bee for five years, and various roles with the Cooper, Langley, and Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology (TJ) band parents, including communications and fundraising for the TJ and Langley Bands.

Helen met Julie Hohl when they both had children first at Cooper Middle School and then at Langley. For at least a year or two, Julie, Michelle and Jane have mentioned ARCS to Helen, and with her youngest daughter’s graduation from high school (photo), it was a perfect time to get involved with ARCS. The timing also coincided with ARCS MWC looking for a new editor for the eNews!