Business leader also serves as state head of LULAC, named Hispanic Man of the Year
Darryl Morin says he was a quiet student in school, not a star. "You hear teachers talking in the halls and I heard them say I wasn't that bright. I was labeled below average in intelligence - a failure - and, shame on me, I accepted it," he says, shaking his head. It was a lesson he would not forget. Today at 42, Morin is the picture of success. And over the last four years, he's emerged as one of a new generation of Latino leaders in Milwaukee, the state and the nation.
Consider:
• He's president and CEO of Advanced Wireless Inc. in Franklin, a company he and his wife, Angela, started in 1995 in their Oak Creek apartment. The company now has customers in 50 states, Canada, Japan, Mexico, the
United Kingdom and Puerto Rico.
• He's also the state director of the League of United Latin American Citizens, the oldest Latino civil rights organization in the country, and a special adviser to Rosa Rosales, the national president of LULAC. Since he became state director in 2008, LULAC has grown from five to nine adult councils, or chapters, in Milwaukee, Racine, Kenosha and Waukesha that work on local issues, and five youth councils in southeastern Wisconsin.
• A Republican who says he votes for the person, he discussed the importance of the Latino vote and immigration on a national Fox News TV show during the 2008 presidential election. (LULAC is a nonpartisan organization.
• Also in 2008 he was named Hispanic Man of the Year by the United Migrant Opportunity Services in Milwaukee. READ FULL STORY
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