Lucy is from Berkeley, California, and is the daughter of the Rev. Canon Dr. Lizette Larson-Miller, of Southern California, and Steven Miller, from South Dakota.

She holds a bachelor’s degree in romance languages and a minor in South Asian studies from New York University, as well as a master’s degree in linguistics, with a focus on language documentation and conservation, from the University of Hawai’i at Mānoa.

Lucy served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Cameroon from 2015 – 2017. During her service, she worked as a language teacher and developed after-school programs focused on women’s health and empowerment. Before joining Doyon Foundation in 2021, Lucy worked as a teacher at a French-English bilingual school in California.

“I am honored to work with Doyon Foundation and I look forward to supporting shareholders working to reclaim Native languages,” she said.

Lucy is currently working toward her PhD in Linguistic Anthropology at UAF, where she works with the Dene languages and traditional ecological knowledge of the Upper Tanana region.