It is with great sadness that we share the passing of University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public and International Affairs (GSPIA) Professor David Young Miller, who died Tuesday, November 17, 2020. He had been a faculty member at the School since 1998.
Miller received his bachelor’s degree in Political Science at Syracuse University, Master of Public Administration degree at Kent State University, and his PhD at GSPIA.
He was the founding director of the School's Center for Metropolitan Studies, as well as the founding advisor of the Congress of Neighboring Communities (CONNECT), where he spearheaded and championed an award-winning national model of networked approaches to leveraging shared policy and program opportunities and resources between the City of Pittsburgh and more than 35 surrounding municipalities.