Mike is a natural resource economist and ordained minister striving to integrate the natural, social and philosophic sciences in his career devoted to education for sustainable development. Committed to collaborative learning, Mike is founding director of the Virginia Natural Resources Leadership Institute in partnership with UVA’s Institute for Environmental Negotiation and the Virginia Department of Forestry, recently cited by the Virginia General Assembly Senate Joint Resolution # 417 (2009) “commending the Institute’s many efforts to build consensus, facilitate good environmental policy and leadership, and dedication to environmental issue resolution for the Commonwealth.”