Christine Miller - President
Christine Miller is Kyle's Mom and serves as President of the Foundation. Christine was born and raised in Texas and has been married to her wonderful husband Kevin for 7 years. Christine has enjoyed being a full time stay at home mom to both Katie and Kyle and now to their family's newest blessing, born in March of '06, Koben. Christine is passionate about attachment parenting and, of course, car seat safety. Christine's hope is that through the Foundation she can help spread awareness about car seat safety and prevent Kyle's tragedy from happening to another child and family.
Christine W Brenner - Accountant
Christine Brenner - is from New York and currently lives in Long Beach, NY. She is a NYS certified public accountant, a wife and a full time working mother of one, Colin. Christine became interested in car seat safety when a friend sent her Kyle’s video and she learned that she had much to learn to keep her 10 month old son safe when traveling in the car. She knew that driving is the most dangerous thing that you do daily but wasn’t aware of the dangers of seat belt inertia, booster seats and improper car seat installation and use. Through the comments on the video and subsequently the information from the foundation’s website she educated herself. She forwarded that e-mail with Kyle’s video to her friends and family. She also made a donation to the foundation as a way of thanking Kyle and his family for helping her and her husband to keep their precious son safer. She now tells anyone she meets with young children about the safety benefits of a 5 point harness car seat instead of booster. She hopes she can do more in the future to get this information to more parents.
Kevin Miller - Treasurer/CFO
Kevin Miller is Kyle's Dad and serves on the Board and as Treasurer of the Foundation. Kevin grew up in San Antonio, Tx and received his degree in Chemical Engineering from Texas A&M University. He enjoys coaching his daughter’s soccer team and spending as much time as he can with his amazing wife and children. Kevin hopes that through his work at the Foundation he can help spread awareness about car seat safety and honor his son’s memory by helping to keep other children safer in his name.
Kris Abbink - Advisory Child Passenger Safety Technician
Kris Abbink - is a stay at home mom to 4 children. She and her husband feel very lucky, even when life throws curves, to have their children. She is also a CPST. She has always been passionate about car seat safety, however, when she learned about Kyle it all changed. She felt that everything she knew was so dated and she had to know more. She also wanted to find out how to do for her family.
She extends her deepest thanks to the Kyle David Miller Foundation for our help to her family. We inspired her to get her CPST and help others. Kris says that there is no greater feeling than knowing that you helped a child ride safer and that you shared information with that parent that they may otherwise not know.
Her goal is to keep working as a CPST, and in the next couple of years to move up to a senior checker and hopefully one day she can become an instructor. She would love to not only help the parents and kids out there, but help educate others in doing this also. .
Angela Lam - Advisory Child Passenger Safety Technician
Angela Lam is a volunteer for the foundation. After spending 6 years in the biotech industry as an auto-immune disease and cancer researcher, she left her career to fulfill her dream of becoming a Stay at home Mother. She has been married to her wonderful husband, Long, for over 6 years and keeps busy chasing after their 3 year old son, Nathan, and their 1 year old daughter, Madeline. After making the big move from San Diego to Chicago almost two years ago, she now participates in a preschool co-op with other mothers in her neighborhood and stay active in her mom's group by attending group outings and play dates. After viewing Kyle's YouTube video in February of 2007 she also became passionate about car seat safety. Kyle was the inspiration for her most recent accomplishment - she is now a certified Child Passenger Safety Technician. Angela looks forward to keeping children safer on the roads in Kyle's honor and spreading the word about Kyle and the Foundation.
Laura Bower - Secretary
Laura Bower works in the world of IP telephony technology and has been in the data networking and telecommunications industry for over ten years. Following a childhood in Scotland, she moved to England to attend the University of Bristol, and transferred to the Boston, MA area about 10 years ago through her work. She is married to a wonderful man and they have two sons who are 2 years old (still rear-facing in his child restraint) and a few weeks old. Laura is passionate about breastfeeding and car seat safety. She mentors many breastfeeding women from their child's birth to six months of age to answer their questions and provide support. Through her work with the foundation, Laura hopes to help educate as many people as possible about proper and safe car seat usage and installation, and to help keep many children safe through the foundation's Car Seats For Families In Need program. Laura serves on the Board of Directors and is Executive Director of the Foundation. Laura is also a certified Child Passenger Safety Technician.
Marie Parker - Vice President
Marie has been a stay at home Mom for the past 7 years. A busy mother of three, her main concern is car seat safety. Her burning desire to see children buckled up correctly is why she willingly decided to help out with the foundation. Marie and her husband practice attachment parenting by breastfeeding, co-sleeping, cloth diapering, and sling wearing. During the week, Marie stays busy with MOPS, Bible studies, play dates, and volunteering at her kids’ school. She lives with her husband Adam, and their three children, Tanner, 7, Matthew, 5, and Morgan 1, in Waco, Tx. Marie serves on the Board of Directors and as Vice-President of the Foundation.
Heather McMeekan - Graphic Designer
Heather McMeekan is a proud wife to her prince, Peter, and mommy to two children, Iris and Kellen. She devotes her graphic design talents to several non-for-profit causes. Before becoming a mom, she worked as a paramedic and EMS Educator for over 9 years. She now works outside the home as a webmaster for an Illinois university.
Meghan Mahar - Advisory Child Passenger Safety Technician
Meghan Mahar is a Child Protective Services social worker and Certified Child Passenger Safety Technician. Meghan is a wonderful mother to three children - Caitlin, Jake and Devyn. Meghan has experienced great personal loss in her life - her mother, brother and sister and her first daughter, Caitlin, who was killed in a car accident. She is a very strong woman and we are thrilled to have her assistance, expertise and advice on car seat safety matters.
Jessica Nachtegaele - Fundraising Chair
Jessica Nachtegaele has been a family friend of the Millers for over 3 years. She lives with her husband Lee and children Phoenix, 4, and Theron, 1 in Angleton Texas. She recently graduated from Texas A&M University with a bachelors degree in special education , but is currently a stay at home mom. Jessica's main interests are in maintaining a vegetarian lifestyle and spreading awareness about child passenger saftey. Jessica is a strong supporter of Attachment Parenting.
Katrina Roldan - Volunteer
Katrina Roldan - has been a stay-at-home mom for the past 15 years. A homeschooling parent, Katrina enjoys spending time reading, playing, and learning with her children. In addition to her roll as mother and teacher, Katrina also runs a consulting business from her home. In her spare time she enjoys scrapbooking her many family photos. After watching Kyle's video for the first time in June of 2007, Katrina became passionate about car seat safety and is dedicated to sharing the foundation's message with as many people as possible.
Katrina lives in southern California with her fire fighter husband, Rich, and their eight children -- Anthony, Audriana, Afton, Alex, Avery, Adam, Aislynn & Andrew.
Courtney Weal - Advisory Child Passenger Safety Technician
Courtney Weal - is a full time working Mom of 2 children (Hannah 8 and Stella 3) and 3 step children. Courtney was so inspired by this foundation that she now has my 8 year old riding safely in a Regent. Hannah has always been concerned with motor vehicles and safety since the loss of her father in a motorcycle accident. Now that she is secured in her Regent, she says she is so happy. Since finding out about Kyle, Courtney has developed a passion in child passenger safety. She became a CPST in June 2007 shortly before the arrival of their Regent. She was so excited about taking the class that she did it all on my own. Everyone else in the class was sent to class because of their jobs and such, but she was proud to say in class thatsheI took a week off (using her vacation time) all in memory of Kyle and keeping children safe. She wanted to be an "expert." Since June, she has worked 4 car seat checks with the local Safe Kids Coalition and checked about 60 car seats. Each time she sends a family away safe it brings her such pleasure. Her 8 year old loves talking to her friends about safety in cars and she is very good at pointing out if someone isn't safe. She wants to be a CPST when she grows up too! .
