Jonathan Miller’s work as a journalist and communications specialist has taken him to more than 20 countries in Asia, Latin America, Africa, Europe, and the Pacific. His reports have been broadcast on NPR, Marketplace, BBC, PBS NewsHour, and many other radio and television outlets. As a print journalist, he has written for the New Yorker, Condé Nast Traveler,  Christian Science Monitor, and dozens of other publications. He is executive director of Homelands Productions, a nonprofit journalism collective that specializes in international reporting. He is also founder and co-director of Story House Ithaca, a local organization devoted to building community through storytelling in all its forms. He serves on the advisory board of Ithaca City of Asylum, a nonprofit that offers refuge to threatened writers and artists. From 2016 to 2018 he was associate director of the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies at Cornell. He has lived in the Philippines, Peru, Kenya, and France. 

Before becoming a journalist, Jonathan worked as a farmhand, forest ranger, firefighter, construction worker, bicycle messenger, maintenance man, cafeteria worker, and day laborer. As a VISTA volunteer in Seattle, he helped establish a childcare center for the children of families living in emergency shelters.