Kara Miller is the owner of Laurel Way Productions, a media production company that works with companies and universities on podcasts, videos, written material, and memorable live events. Her focus is innovation, technology, and invention. Clients have included MIT, Khosla Ventures, and Harvard University.
Kara also writes “The Big Idea” column for The Boston Globe and has highlighted researchers from Nobel-Prize winning economist Claudia Goldin to management guru Andrew McAfee.
From 2011 to 2021, she hosted the nationally-syndicated public radio program Innovation Hub, which she launched. The program won the 2021 Clarion Award for best Radio Talk or Interview Program and aired on more than 100 stations, including in New York, Houston, Philadelphia, Chicago and Washington, D.C. It spotlighted compelling thinkers, including Steve Wozniak, Sherry Turkle, Yo-Yo Ma, and Sal Khan. Kara has also contributed to other national radio programs, including “The Takeaway,” “Marketplace Tech,” and “The World.”
Kara has moderated panels and spoken about innovation and entrepreneurship at events hosted by The International Women’s Forum, PBS Digital Media for STEM, Harvard Medical School, Google, and MIT Sloan. She holds a Ph.D. from Tufts and a B.A. from Yale. She has taught at Babson College and at the University of Massachusetts.
