Tegan Miller

2024 Cohort

Pronouns: she/her

Tegan is creating positive change through volunteering and working with local communities and the First Nations Clean Energy Network to build a more reconciled, equitable future for First Peoples.

Tegan lives in Narrm (Melbourne), Victoria, Australia, on the traditional lands of the Bunurong and Boon Wurrung peoples. She began her career in communications and now focuses on transforming the energy sector to address inequality, promote truth-telling and collaborate with Indigenous communities.

Tegan currently works at CitiPower, Powercor and United Energy to build mutually beneficial partnerships with Victoria's First Peoples – assisting the businesses on their reconciliation journey and building cultural safety, whilst improving social procurement opportunities and employment pathways for Aboriginal businesses and First Peoples.

During her previous job at the Victorian Government's Department of Energy, Environment and Climate Action, she worked on programs that focused on renewable energy for Aboriginal communities. She was involved in the Traditional Owner Renewable Energy Program (TOREP), and created the First Peoples Adoption of Renewable Energy Program. In this role, she empowered her colleagues and renewable energy proponents to understand how to meaningfully partner with Traditional Owners, supporting them to improve services and practices that will inevitably support Traditional Owners to continue their self-determination interests and aspirations.

“I am passionate about energy equity and ensuring First Peoples benefit in tangible, meaningful and self-determined ways from the renewable energy transition.”

Social change work

Tegan is currently creating social and behavioural change in the three energy utilities – assisting the organisations to better understand and respect First Peoples’ histories, cultures, heritage, connection to Country and inherent rights as Traditional Owners. As part of this work, she has developed two Reconciliation Action Plans that acknowledge past mistakes that were made and set actions that will have tangible outcomes for First Peoples communities.

Tegan’s passion for First Nations renewable energy has led her to join the First Nations Clean Energy Network as a policy member, and participate in their PowerMakers Program in Gimuy (Cairns).