Mike is the Director of Equity at Cascadia Consulting Group, and is a national leader in equitable climate action. He has led climate adaptation and mitigation planning projects throughout the Northwest, for groups including Sound Transit, the Tulalip Tribes, the North Olympic Development Council, and the Cities of Tacoma and Seattle. Additionally, Mike has led various equity and environmental justice projects, including an equity assessment for Oregon’s Department of Environmental Quality’s Climate Protection Program, an equity and environmental justice assessment for the National Academies’ Airport Cooperative Research Program, and numerous equity and environmental justice initiatives for various higher education institutions. Mike previously worked as the climate adaptation specialist for the Makah Tribe, a Hershman Fellow with the Makah Tribe and The Nature Conservancy working on ocean acidification impacts to tribal fisheries, and as a graduate fellow at Washington Sea Grant. Mike coauthored the 4^th National Climate Assessment, contributed to the Tribal Climate Adaptation Guidebook, and served on the Community Engagement Committee of Washington’s Environmental Justice Task Force. Mike is currently a lead author of the 5^th National Climate Assessment, upcoming in 2023, and is a co-chair of the National Adaptation Forum’s Equity and Justice Working Group. He holds a Master of Marine Affairs from the University of Washington and a B.S. in Ecology & Evolutionary Biology from Yale University.