Meet Michael
Michael is an innovative, interdisciplinary senior equity and justice leader with 30 years of experience leading teams, groups and organizations. He is passionate about solutions drawn from and designed with nature.
His work emphasizes community and public health efforts, especially highlighting Indigenous knowledge and rights. He is a citizen of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma.
He has practiced as both a lawyer and physician with over 10 years of experience working as an Indian Health Service physician serving American Indian and Alaska Native people in Seattle, Washington. He served as health policy staff to the U.S. Senate Majority Leader where he worked intensely on racial and ethnic health and health care disparities and health system transformation.
He has over 16 years of experience in philanthropy serving at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation in Princeton, NJ, the largest philanthropy in the U.S. devoted to improving health of people living in the United States.
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