Carmelita Kelly Miller (she/her/hers) is the Energy Equity Strategist at The Greenlining Institute. Carmelita is a senior equity and justice advocate whose work is shaped by lived experience, legal training, and a long-standing commitment to communities historically burdened by environmental and economic harm. Growing up as an immigrant and in environmental justice communities, Carmelita learned early how deeply policy decisions shape daily life — whether through housing conditions, access to clean air, or the affordability of essential services like energy. Those experiences grounded a lifelong commitment to advancing equity in systems that too often reproduce inequality. As counsel and advocate, Carmelita has worked at the intersection of law, policy, and movement-building, with a particular focus on energy justice and climate equity. Her work centers on ensuring that the clean energy transition reduces, rather than deepens, racial and economic disparities. Carmelita has represented and advised community-based organizations, coalitions, and nonprofits in complex regulatory and legislative arenas, translating technical policy frameworks into strategies that center affordability, health, and community power. She is known for her work on utility regulation, energy affordability, and decarbonization policies that account for the lived realities of low-income households and communities of color. Carmelita earned a Juris Doctor from UC Hastings College of the Law and is a member of the California Bar. Her legal background spans energy and environmental justice, workers’ rights, tenants’ rights, and immigration law, informing a holistic approach to advocacy that recognizes how overlapping systems of law and policy affect people’s lives. Outside of work, Carmelita enjoys gardening and is continually learning about plants — finding both grounding and joy in nurturing living things and watching them grow.