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Christopher Merrill

Christopher Merrill

American poet and essayist

Aug 19, 2026

4:38
And maybe just talk about why did you leave an established platform like Heitman, where you had really just a great seat and huge opportunity there, to start Harrison Street?
4:50
You know, for me, you know, Heitman gave me a start.
4:53
I was a summer intern for many years there.
4:55
Had this crazy idea to move to, to Europe.
4:59
I was their first employee to go move to Europe with this idea of doing the first real estate fund for Central Europe.
5:05
And it was nice.
5:06
Heitman gave me the shot to try and do it.

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43:49
Mm-hmm.
1:29
Can you please tell us about yourself and what are you working on now?
1:33
What a pleasure to be here.
1:34
Thank you.
1:35
Well, I'm working on now a biography of my first ancestor in the New World, Roger Williams, who is the Puritan divine who gave us the idea of the separation of church and state.
1:47
It's been a long distance to this book that I'm working on now.
1:52
And I'll tell you a little something about how that came to be.
1:54
I grew up in New Jersey, where as a teenager, there were only two things I wanted to do.
4:29
Can you share some stories about your experiences abroad?

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