Marlon Millner

Marlon Millner is a Ph.D candidate in religious studies at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. Marlon comes to doctoral work with a unique background in Christian ministry, electoral politics, progressive social activism and journalism, including Web media.

Before Northwestern, Marlon was councilman-at-large in Norristown, Pennsylvania, the county seat of Montgomery County. He was also the pastor of the McKinley Memorial Baptist Church in Willow Grove, Pennsylvania. A longtime communications professional, Marlon did web content management and client services with a large digital marketing services firm for small and medium businesses. And before that, he was an award-winning journalist, who worked for Dow Jones News Service and America Online among other entities.

Marlon was co-chair of the statewide equity organization, Building One Pennsylvania, active in the Suburban Baptist Association, the Philadelphia Baptist Association, co-founder of Pentecostals and Charismatics for Peace and Justice, the Greater Philadelphia Chapter of the Morehouse College Alumni Association, and Harvard/Radcliffe Club of Philadelphia. He is an ordained Apostolic Pentecostal and American Baptist Churches USA clergy person.

Marlon earned his bachelor of arts degree from Morehouse College, and a master of divinity degree from Harvard Divinity School.

He was married to the late Diana Aubourg Millner, a former program officer at the Stoneleigh Foundation in Philadelphia.

His primary role in life is that of father to two children, a son "EJ," and a daughter "Imma," who each day he has affirm: I Am Beautiful, I Am Powerful, I Am Intelligent.