Exciting, compassionate and highly motivated to improve the quality of life for children in the United States and abroad are just a few adjectives used to describe David C. Miller. As the co-founder and Chief Visionary Officer for the Urban Leadership Institute, LLC, Miller uses his experiences growing up navigating the streets of Baltimore, MD coupled with his academic training to motivate and inspire youth and families to “move to the next level.”

Miller is the co-founder of Raising Him Alone (RHA) an initiative dedicated to researching, designing, and implementing a campaign which uses a combination of community based workshops, technology and social media vehicles to disseminate best practices to support the social well being of single mothers and the sons that they are raising up alone. Miller also authored the book, Raising Him Alone, in 2009. Additional publications include: Mama Used To Say: Ordinary Women With Extraordinary Wisdom( 2009), Dare To Be King: What If the Prince Lives a Survival Workbook for African American Males? (2003, 2004 & 2009), Lessons I Learned from My Father: A Collection of Quotes from Men of African Descent (2004), Dare To Be Queen: Curriculum for Working with Girls (2005) and Rhyme & Reason – (2005) Hip Hop Curriculum for educators.

Miller received a Master Degree in Education (specialization in conflict resolution & school based mediation) from Goucher College and a Bachelor of Science in Political Science from the University of Baltimore.

 
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