Michael's varied background includes the founding, with five others, of the Iris Forum, the first multi-partisan environmental think-tank; a national youth issues-awareness campaign with the New Paradigm Institute; scientific health and environmental data-sharing and scientific modeling with the Regional Workbench and National Partnership for Advanced Computational Infrastructure; ethnography and user interface design with the UCSD Distributed Cognition Laboratory; ecological research in the School for Field Studies; and a self-designed multi-disciplinary B.S. on the interaction between cognition and our natural, social, and technological environments. Michael's expression in work is to empower another to succeed. When motivated by admiration for a vision, idea, project, or another person's life, he is inspired to depict it to the world. Artists are the force that help ideas spread freely around the world. His viewpoint on leadership and society stems from the fact that because people naturally raise cultural leaders, therefore institutional leaders, execuitives, and politicians must be connected with culture.

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