COURTNEY MILLER works at the intersection of storytelling and emerging technology, helping the creative industry make sense of what new tools actually change. A film-trained media professional with more than twenty years across production, teaching, and creative technology, she has built a career embedded in the communities she serves, known for earning the trust of the people doing the work and separating meaningful innovation from hype.

At Adobe, she leads partnerships with the country's top film and design schools, including AFI, USC, and Chapman, and designs the forums where filmmakers, faculty, and technologists work out how generative AI, virtual production, and immersive media reshape the craft. She serves on the CSU AI Workforce Advisory Council, contributing to state-level guidance on AI and the creative workforce, and she conceives and produces the convenings that bring working creators into direct conversation with industry, from Adobe's largest-scale education program to system-wide events across the California State University.

She earned the nickname "captain" after living and teaching aboard a ship that circled the globe with the Semester at Sea program, where she restructured and directed the shipboard multimedia department and led students on service-learning projects around the world. The experience deepened the values that still anchor her work: empathy, inclusion, and the belief that the best ideas come from listening first.

Courtney began her career in entertainment as a writer, director, and field producer. She has directed festival-selected films, written a feature optioned for production, and scored original music, and she spent two years producing documentary segments for Oxygen, the network co-founded by Oprah Winfrey, including coverage of the Emmys and the Academy Awards. She has produced hundreds of events across Southern California with artists including Yo-Yo Ma and John Williams, and worked in audio research at the lab of THX inventor Tomlinson Holman. Earlier at USC, she founded and directed the Annenberg Digital Lounge, a digital makerspace and Adobe Certification Center that moved 87% of the school onto professional creative tools and became a nationally replicated model.

Her perspective is shaped by an international life, with travel to more than seventy countries. She holds a BA in Cinema-Television and an MFA in Writing from the University of Southern California. She is an avid cyclist and a certified Kundalini yoga and meditation teacher, and she has never met a spa she didn't like.