User:Marvmiller

Marvin T. Miller, Chief Operating Officer — The Laurent Company

He is the man with the passion and vision to build world's first fully integrated town, Laurent, South Dakota. With his wife, Jennifer, and a family of three boys and one daughter, his personal dream is to live in a town where children can be safe and develop independence, where people know and care about their neighbors, where local politics are everyone's business, becomes a necessity.

Thirty-two year old Marvin has come to believe that the best way to provide for his family is by doing something that will benefit thousands of people — build that town now. A native of Michigan, Marvin has also lived in Washington, D.C.; Las Vegas, NV; Austin, Texas and for the past 3 years, South Dakota. He is a man of many talents, used to both leading and influencing others.

He has been editor of his school newspaper, Telegraph Hill News, at MSSD, an owner and editor of a statewide newspaper, The Deaf Michigander, and a national newspaper, DeafNation, as well as other publications. Marvin was Creative Media Director at CSD (Communication Service for the Deaf) in Sioux Falls, S.D. He has left CSD as of January 30, 2004 to focus full time on development of Laurent, S.D. Laurent, South Dakota