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Leah Bergen Miller is the Director of the Center on Holocaust Survivor Care and Institute on Aging and Trauma (Center) at the Jewish Federations of North America. She manages all Center-funded programs and technical support, as well as builds the national capacity to provide person-centered, trauma-informed care for older adults. From 2000 to 2015, she dedicated herself to improving the lives of refugees and internally displaced people by working as an advocate and program manager for refugees and asylees at HIAS, which aided her Holocaust survivor grandparents; a case worker for refugees at Church World Service-Joint Voluntary Agency in Nairobi, Kenya; an employment case manager for refugees and asylees at Lutheran Social Services of the National Capital Area; a GED instructor for immigrants at Centro Hispano; and a disaster action team volunteer for internally displaced people at the American Red Cross. Before graduating from American University’s School of International Service with a BA in International Peace and Conflict Resolution, Leah processed asylum applications at US Citizen and Immigration Services’ Arlington Asylum Office.