Meet our team.

Cort Miller, Ph.D.

Co-founder of Educate for Opportunity
Chief Executive Officer

• Ph.D., Human & Cultural Geography & African Studies, University of Kansas
• M.B.A., Marketing and International Business, Avila University
• M.S.O.D., Organizational Development Psychology, Avila University
• M.A., Intercultural Studies, Nazarene Theological Seminary
• B.A., Theology, MidAmerica Nazarene University

As well as serving as the Chief Executive Officer for Educate for Opportunity, Dr. Miller also serves as the Director of Development and Constituency Engagement.  His responsibilities include resourcing disaster response, child development, education, healthcare, social justice and micro-finance projects throughout the world; coordinating donor development; establishing strategic partnerships with international relief and development organizations; overseeing production of web, audiovisual, electronic, and print media; coordinating and leading donor vision and project assessment trips; managing marketing, communications and software development programmers; and overseeing international staff.  Dr. Miller has served on numerous boards with international organizations focused on sustainable development programs across the globe.  As well he engages as an adjunct professor teaching courses in cross cultural exploration and social justice.  His most recent scholarly research is focused in Rwanda, Africa and investigates issues of landlessness, unemployment, vocational training and educational opportunities for marginalized women and youth of post-genocide Rwanda.

Cort shares his life adventures with his wife, Karen. As often as possible, they spend their free time traveling and sharing life with friends. With Cort's love of the ocean and Karen's love of the mountains, they enjoy the great outdoors and getting away from it all.

Karen Garber-Miller, Ph.D.

Co-founder of Educate for Opportunity
Chief Academic Officer

• Ph.D., Language and Literacy, Leadership & Policy Studies, University of Missouri-Kansas City
• M.A., English Education, Southern Nazarene University
• B.A., English Education, MidAmerica Nazarene University

As well as serving as the Chief Academic Officer for Educate for Opportunity, Dr. Garber-Miller also serves as the Dean in the School of Education at Avila University.  She has spent her career working with children, youth, teachers in training, and master teachers helping them prepare to be successful working with diverse learners in classrooms around the world.  Dr. Garber-Miller specializes in the fields of global literacy, English as a second language, English education, language arts, and educational administration.  For over twenty years she has taught and held faculty and educational administration positions in schools and universities working to promote educational access for all.   Dr. Garber-Miller provides cross-cultural training for organizations, helps prepare learners for TOEFL success, serves with educational advocacy bodies, takes students abroad to engage in social justice work, and provides leadership and service on numerous international education projects in formal and informal sectors in Armenia, Botswana, China, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Dominican Republic, Ethiopia, Haiti, Hungary, Mexico, Myanmar, Philippines, Russia, Rwanda, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Swaziland, Thailand, Ukraine, and Zambia.  

Karen loves to read, engage with friends across the world, spend time with extended family, ski and hike.