Edgar Miller, in a career that has spanned more than half a century,
has been a reporter, a copy editor, a foreign correspondent, a press secretary for a U.S. senator, a wire service bureau chief, a newspaper editor, a magazine editor, and a journalism educator. He has written and edited for print, radio, television, film, and the Internet. He has designed and produced numerous newsletters, including a daily faxed newsletter on Latin America when he lived in the Washington, D.C., area. He won critical acclaim as the translator of two Brazilian novels from Portuguese to English for the New York publisher Alfred A. Knopf Inc. He served in the military as a Slovene language specialist and intelligence analyst. He holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in communications.
John Miller’s skill as a manager, entrepreneur and marketer has been
honed by many years of experience in small business. For several years, John successfully operated white water rafting businesses on the Ocoee River in Southeast Tennessee. In that role, he developed a highly successful system for training guides and oversaw the complicated business of organizing multiple daily trips, keeping track of reservations, and setting up a marketing plan to attract new customers. Today, John is the business manager of his wife’s successful architectural rendering company, Christopher Illustrations.
Ghislaine Costa Ribeiro Miller is a native of Rio de Janeiro who speaks
Portuguese, English, French and Spanish. She has taught these languages at all levels, from preschool to university. She currently teaches Spanish at Pellissippi State Community College. She holds a master’s degree in Spanish from the University of Tennessee.
Jacqueline Miller Laurito has worked for the past 18 years as a legal
secretary for major law firms in Washington, D.C., and Northern Virginia, and currently in Knoxville, Tenn. She is accredited by the National Association of Legal Secretaries. Fluent in English, Portuguese, Spanish and French, she also has worked for several years as a free-lance translator/interpreter, both in the United States and Brazil. Before becoming a legal secretary, she was an executive secretary to a major international consulting firm in Washington. And prior to that she worked in the travel and hotel industries and is a certified travel agent. She studied at the University of Tennessee in Chattanooga, the University of Maryland and Monterey Peninsula College in California and did course work at the USDA Graduate School in Washington.