Class Of: 2010

Degree: International Studies and German Language & Literature

Michael hails from Minnesota where he first studied German.  As a Woodrow Wilson Fellow at Hopkins, Michael spent a summer researching Thomas Mann in Germany and writing an honors thesis “Setting the Stage: Theatricality in Thomas Mann’s Early Novellas” while double majoring in IS, working on a number of additional languages (French, Kiswahili, Portuguese) and spending his junior year abroad in Botswana. 

After graduation, Michael worked in Washington, DC at the National Endowment for Democracy on the Africa desk and completed a stay in South Africa as a Princeton in Africa Fellow at the non-profit Equal Education. Michael has since completed a Masters of Urban Planning at McGill University and is currently working in Philadelphia in the affordable housing sector.