Mike designed and launched a high school as a Harvard grad student, and later interventions for teens and tweens at the Harvard Innovation Lab and the Harvard Launch Lab. He writes for the journal Education Next and has worked with Nobel Prize-winning economists to measure program effectiveness.
Mike and his wife Pru live outside Boston; he likes tennis with his teenage son, cooking with his teenage daughter, and fetch with his 4 year old doodle.
His work with teens and tweens emphasizes measurable progress and clear goals.