Chris Miller is CEO and a founding board member of the National Coalition for Community Capital (NC3), a 501c3. Among NC3’s goals are empowerment of ordinary citizens and strengthening local economies through community investment and ownership. Chris has been working on community and economic development for over 20 years as an elected and appointed official, as an on-the-ground economic developer, and as a community investment innovator operating on a national level. In 2013, Chris led the creation and passage of Michigan’s investment crowdfunding law which became a national model. Chris is an EDA Economic Innovation Fellow, and created NC3’s Community Capital Accelerator. The accelerator brings together an innovative set of strategies and expertise that enables NC3 to co-create a unique pooled investment fund embedded into local communities, which is open to all and designed to be an engine for local economic resilience.