Claire Miller

2023
Political Science. Innovation and Entrepreneurship. Studio Art.

Claire Miller is a senior from Prosper, Texas, and on campus, Flaherty Hall. She will be graduating this upcoming May with a major in Political Science and a minor in Innovation & Entrepreneurship. While at Notre Dame, she has earned herself the reputation as a serial entrepreneur and has found great success. She led the grand prize-winning team for the 2022 McCloskey New Venture Competition, Notre Dame’s annual business plan competition, placing first out of over 150 startup companies. She currently works as a Startup Coach in Notre Dame’s IDEA Center in which she helps student entrepreneurs de-risk and build their own successful startups.

Alongside her passion for entrepreneurship, she is passionate about the law and has held a number of internship positions while at Notre Dame. In the Spring of 2022, she worked as an investigative intern in the prestigious Criminal Law Internship Program for the Public Defender Service for the District of Columbia (PDSDC). While with PDSDC, she worked in the homicide unit to collect and analyze evidence and met directly with incarcerated clients to prepare defense strategies for trial.  Bringing her two interests together, she finds herself at the intersection between law and innovation and hopes to pursue a career in this space.

She is excited to learn about Thom Browne, who she argues, is the most successful entrepreneur to come from Notre Dame. She is also inspired to take this course by her dad, who while at Notre Dame for his MBA from 2001 to 2003, worked on the original business plan for Thom Browne  with Thom’s brother Chris.