Starlyn
Miller

Starlyn is our Native Lands Partnerships Director. She is an experienced professional skilled in building partnerships centered on diplomacy, tribal consultation, and interests of Native and Indigenous peoples. In this role as Native Lands Partnerships Director, Starlyn hopes to catalyze collaborations, alliances, and partnerships and lead a team to develop policy priorities and positions that advance protection of cultural and sacred sites, co-management on public lands, and large landscape protection which center Native and Indigenous peoples history, sovereignty, and interests.

Prior to joining TWS, Starlyn was the Assistant Tribal Attorney for the Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin. In that role, she advised her client on a broad range of complex legal and strategic issues to assist the Nation in exercising and protecting tribal sovereignty and furthering tribal self-determination to the fullest. Starlyn also has many years of experience in collaborative work among tribal departments, tribal executive leadership, outside counsel, non-profit partners, media consultants, community groups, tribal, federal, and state agencies on cultural, environmental, and sacred sites.

Starlyn was born and raised and resides in Wisconsin.  She is a member of the State Bar of Wisconsin and claims title of a “Double Badger” holding a J.D. (2008) from the University of Wisconsin-Madison Law School along with a B.S. in Education from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and certificate in American Indian Studies and Creative Writing (2005). Starlyn is an enrolled member of the Little Shell Chippewa Tribe of Montana and a direct descendant of Menominee and Stockbridge-Munsee. Starlyn and her husband, Beau (who is a Tribal Conservation Warden), have three children, Miles Aupaumut, Meryl Blue, and Moss Campbell. They enjoy time together fishing in Canada, berry picking, morel mushroom.