Michael has worked at the intersections of storytelling, culture and social change to build the movements that won marriage equality and showed young people that their votes are power. At Spitfire, he worked to launch Campaign for Size Freedom with Dove, NAAFA and The FLARE Project to end weight discrimination, which resulted in landmark legislation in New York City. He helped Hip Hop Caucus bring hip-hop back to the center of its work through a cultural strategy that leveraged hip-hop as a creative vehicle for moving young people to action. He led development of The South’s Got Now/Decidimos, a bilingual campaign for the Southern Poverty Law Center to turn out young people of color to vote in the Deep South. As director of marketing at MoveOn, he created cultural strategies to engage new and diverse audiences through creative partnerships with celebrities, influencers and advocates. At Freedom to Marry, he led the digital and creative team and played a central role in shaping the narrative around same-sex couples and digital strategy to win marriage nationwide. In a bid to become the Black Don Draper in the making, he also studied advertising at Miami Ad School. Michael believes that if organizations thought more like brands, we'd have a better shot of transforming America into a truly multiracial democracy.