A lawyer and social worker by profession, Mike is currently working on Indigenous health legislation with Métis National Council where he previously served as legal advisor.

Mike is a past Board Member and Executive Director of the Institute for Change Leaders (ICL) based in Toronto and has a professional background building and administering family health care. Mike is an alumnus of the public leadership program at Harvard where he served as a teaching fellow for Marshall Ganz in the Leadership, Organizing, and Change course.

He has taught most recently at Trent University and CLC’s Canada Labour College and has helped equip many leaders including students, labour leaders, political candidates, survivors of sexual violence, migrant workers, and most recently public service workers fired by Trump .

In 2022, Mike was elected to City Council for Ward 3 in his home municipality of Kawartha Lakes, Ontario. He and his young children, Abigail and Gabe, are proud citizens of the Métis Nation.