Our Team
Dr. KRISTEN MILLER, Ed.D.
CEO/Founder
Following a three-year engineering career, Kristen Miller spent 13 years in education teaching predominantly high school mathematics, AVID, and Career Technical Education, and serving as a middle school Vice Principal in Northern California. Seeing a huge need for high quality social and emotional interventions, systems and supports, Miller created a youth empowerment organization, With Heart Project (WHP), to work alongside schools and districts promoting Social-Emotional Wellness (SEL), Restorative Practices (RP), Trauma-Informed Practices (TIP), and Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (PBIS). In her inaugural year, she partnered with a high-poverty middle school in Northern California to create and implement practices, processes, and procedures to decrease student suspension rates and increase academic achievement. Her results were remarkable. Her efforts yielded a 79% growth in Common Core Mathematics achievement, as well as reduction in discipline and attendance infractions, increase in GPA, and increase in math and reading grade levels among at-risk students.
JESSICA MULHOLLAND
Editorial Director
Jessica Mulholland brings more than 20 years of writing, reporting, researching and editing experience to With Heart Project. She previously served as a senior editor at the California Hospital Association and managing editor at the California Chamber of Commerce, where she furthered organizational missions through content strategy, creation, and editing. She also served as news editor for Government Technology magazine, where she managed daily editorial content and special projects, associate editor for Governing magazine based in Washington, D.C., and was the founding editor of Emergency Management magazine, a publication she was instrumental in launching.