Brendan Miller

Brendan is currently working as a project manager with SGProperties in New Mexico, including overseeing the development of Plaza Contenta in Santa Fe. This is an pedestrian-oriented, infill retail and office space development that will provide public space and serve the surrounding community. He is also working to create a cohousing neighborhood in partnership with the Wonderland Hill Development Company at the Galisteo Basin Preserve (a project of the Commonweal Conservancy just outside of Santa Fe). He serves on the Board of Directors of the Permaculture Credit Union, where his goal is to increase the lending capacity of the Credit Union and ensure that it continues to provide innovative, environmentally responsible loans that other institutions cannot or will not provide.

Prior to his work in New Mexico, he was the assistant development manager on the Sawyer Hill Cohousing development in Berlin, MA. This "40b" development will be two neighborhoods of 34-units each, including 25% affordable housing and approximately 30 acres of conservation land and open space. His work on this project was the result of a partnership between the Fellowship for Intentional Community, Chris ScottHanson, author of The Cohousing Handbook and Stew Mayer, a founding partner of the Nexum Group.

Brendan has years of experience with community process, facilitation, and training in a variety of settings including the Boston Foundation, City Year, and New Leaders for New Schools. He was a founding partner of The Meristem Group. He has served for two years in AmeriCorps, first as a volunteer coordinator then as an AmeriCorps Leader. He worked as the lead Research Fellow with Professor Peter Frumkin at Harvard University's Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations, studying national service and citizenship for a forthcoming book.

He has degrees from Brown Univeristy, the MIT Sloan School of Management, and the Harvard Kennedy School of Government where he was a Public Service Fellow. While a graduate student, he studied democratic theory, leadership and negotiation techniques, organizational learning, systems thinking, urban policy, real estate, affordable housing, entrepreneurship and general management.

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Brendan is always looking for opportunities to put more Democratic Development theory into pratice. If you know of possible opportunities or would like to explore partnering, please contact him at brendan@brendanmiller.com


Friends, family and colleagues

Some other important people, groups and organizations in my life and work.

My family

Bob (my father) recently retired from AT&T and is working on a book of poetry. Mary Kay (my mother) is close to retirement as well, but still working as an ESL teacher with the East Windsor, NJ school district. Stacey (my sister) is a physical medicine and rehabilitation (PM&R) resident at UMDNJ.

My wife, Tamara Bates, splits her time between fundraising for educational institutions and programs, early childhood education policy and dance instruction. Her father, Gary Bates, is a sculptor in Bozeman, MT. Her mother started the Montana State Ballet and has since returned to school to look at how the arts can be used to promote peace.

Some friends and colleagues

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