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The Trans500 list recognizes the most influential transgender, non-binary, and gender-expansive leaders in the world. Miller debuts at #47 this year, not merely for her corporate title, but for —a radical transparency initiative she launched in Q1 2024.

Born in São Paulo, Brazil, Miller moved to the U.S. at 14. She explains that “Arielly” is a tribute to her late grandmother—a woman who taught her to code on a Commodore 64. “But ‘Arie’? That’s the version of me who survived. The one who dropped out of MIT, then went back. The one who came out as a trans woman at 29 in a room full of 400 engineers. ‘Arie’ is the verb; ‘Arielly’ is the noun.” Trans500 24 11 29 Arielly Miller All About Arie...

For now, she ends our interview with a simple piece of advice written on her whiteboard: “Don’t ask for permission. Ask for the budget.”

“Arie doesn’t just walk into a room—she recalibrates the lighting,” says Samira K., a nonbinary CFO and fellow Trans500 honoree (#12). “She has this ability to make venture capitalists cry during a Q&A, then close the round at 2x valuation. That’s not a superpower. That’s preparation meeting authenticity.” END FEATURE The Trans500 list recognizes the most

Miller is tight-lipped about her next move, but sources confirm she is in early talks to join the board of a major professional soccer league as their first openly trans director.

Under her direction, Nexum Dynamics became the first Fortune 1000 company to voluntarily scrub legacy gender markers from all internal historical data, while simultaneously creating a patent-pending “Identity Continuity Protocol” for transitioning employees. That’s the version of me who survived

Trans500 24 11 29 Arielly Miller: All About Arie – The Visionary Rewriting the Rules of Inclusion