Michael is a second year student in the Master of Public Diplomacy program at USC. He received his bachelor’s degree in Literary Journalism with a minor in African-American Studies from the University of California, Irvine and also studied International Affairs at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile.

As a Fellow at CPD and a Geoffrey Cowan Scholar at USC Annenberg’s Center on Communication Leadership & Policy, his research focuses on the intersection of politics & technology, immigration from Latin America and the Middle East, as well as LGBT diplomacy.