Meet Sgt. Chris Miller

Sergeant Chris Miller, has been with the Lubbock Police Department since January 2004.  He holds a Master Peace Officer license and Advanced Instructor Certificate from the Texas Commission on Law Enforcement (TCOLE).   His career in law enforcement has spanned numerous investigative and administrative environments.  He has experience conducting various types of criminal investigations including those involving crimes against property, crimes against persons, and the investigation of narcotic related offenses.  Sgt. Miller has been assigned to the Patrol Division as a Patrol Officer, Field Training Officer, Crime Scene Officer and a Patrol Sergeant. He was assigned to the Lubbock Police Academy as an Instructor and Range Master.  He was also assigned to the Lubbock Police Department’s Office of Professional Standards (Internal Affairs) where he conducted administrative investigations on alleged officer misconduct. Sergeant Miller is currently assigned to the Lubbock Police Department’s Special Operations Division, and works as a Task Force Officer with the Drug Enforcement Administration’s High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area (HIDTA) Task Force. Sergeant Miller’s current duties involve the investigation and prosecution of drug trafficking offenses in both state and federal courts.

Meet Dr. Kitty Harris

Dr. Kitty Harris is Professor Emeritus at Texas Tech University.  She is the CEO and President of NLW Partners, a research, education and addiction recovery consulting firm.  She also serves as President of Trac9 Informatics, a gold-standard clinical assessment instrument tracking outcomes for those in treatment with substance use disorders or mental health concerns.

She is a noted public speaker at national conferences, workshops and seminars on topics including adolescence; substance abuse prevention; addiction and recovery; and communication, civility and leadership. Dr. Harris currently holds LCDC (Licensed Chemical Dependency Counselor) and LMFT (Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist) licenses

Dr. Harris is the author of Women and Recovery-Finding Hope, published by John Wiley & Sons, Inc. and co-editor of Substance Abuse Recovery in College, published by Springer.

She served for twelve years as the Director of the Center for the Study of Addiction and Recovery (CSAR) at Texas Tech University. Under her leadership, the CSAR gained national attention, appearing in the Wall Street Journal, on the NBC Today Show, CNN, and featured in The Chronicle of Higher Education, Inside Higher Ed, and The New York Times. For six years, she was also Associate Dean of the College of Human Sciences at Texas Tech University.

Dr. Harris has been the recipient of numerous awards. In 2007, she won the America Honors Recovery Award for her efforts in working with college students in recovery. She received the Distinguished Service Award in 2008 from the Texas Tech University Alumni Association. In 2012, Dr. Harris was the first recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award presented by the Association of Recovery in Higher Education (ARHE), and was named Woman of Excellence in Education by the Lubbock YWCA. She has also been named a Distinguished Alumna of the Texas Tech College of Human Sciences in 2001 and was named to the Texas Women’s Hall of Fame, Office of the Governor of Texas in 1993.

She serves on the Advisory Board of the Margaret Talkington School for Young Women Leaders, a public single-gender college preparatory school for girls in the Lubbock ISD; President of the Young Women Leaders Foundation and the Advisory Board of Lubbock National Bank. Previously Dr. Harris served on the Board of Directors of Lubbock National Bank and the Commerce National Bank of Austin and College Station, Texas. She was the vice president of the Board of Directors of the J.T. and Margaret Talkington Charitable Foundation.

From 2012-2014, Dr. Harris served as a Women’s Initiative Fellowship Mentor through the George W. Bush Institute in Dallas, Texas.  The Women’s Initiative Fellowship is a program to develop leadership and networking skills for women in Egypt. Dr. Harris was asked to mentor one of the Egyptian Fellows, a Dentist from Cairo, Egypt.

Meet Sybille Neuber

Co-Chair West Texas Chapter

Sybille Neuber, MOT/OTR, CKTP immigrated from Germany to the United States in 1996. After the death of her youngest child by suicide 7 years ago, she became a volunteer for the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention (AFSP) to raise awareness about mental illness, addiction, and suicide and to break the stigma associated with it. She is now the chair for the West Texas Chapter of AFSP.

At her church, Sybille is the leader of the spiritual life committee. She established a grief ministry and is the facilitator for GriefShare, a faith-based grief seminar and support group. Her interest in recovery brought her to volunteer with the Adolescent Support Network, a non-profit supporting teens struggling with substance abuse.

Sybille holds a master’s degree from Texas Tech University in Occupational Therapy (2012 )and a degree in the same field, Beschaeftigungs und Arbeitstherapy from Germany (1989). Currently, she works at Trustpoint Rehabilitation Hospital of Lubbock as well as in her own private Occupational Therapy practice, Ergo-Therapy and Wellness, where she uses a holistic approach to address her clients' physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual needs. She teaches a warm water arthritis class and speaks in the community about various topics such as fall prevention, arthritis, non-medical pain management, grief, and mental health.