Profile
Mike is a non-resident honorary research associate at the University of Oxford and a Ph.D. candidate at Trent Unversity's School of Canadian Studies and Indigenous Studies in Peterborough, Ontario, Canada. His work interrogates the increasingly alleged nexus between climate change and human trafficking engaging primarily the context of the Arctic and voices of Indigenous women.
A lawyer and social worker by profession, Mike is currently Lead – Laws & Constitution – for the Métis Nation of Ontario. He has served as Executive Director of the City of Kawartha Lakes Family Health Team and is a past coordinator of Canada's campaign for the International Criminal Court. Mike has also been senior program manager of the anti-crime program at the Department of Foreign Affairs, where he worked against human trafficking at the bilateral and international levels including at the United Nations, and was consulted in the drafting of Canada's National Action Plan to Combat Human Trafficking. During law school, Mike clerked for the Supreme Court of the Northwest Territories and is currently working against human trafficking as an ally of Women's Resources. He is a proud past member of the Canadian Armed Forces Reserves.
Mike is also a sessional lecturer in law at Trent University where he has received awards for excellence in teaching. His recent publications include a chapter in The North American Arctic: Themes in Regional Security and Tip of the Iceberg: Human Trafficking, Borders, and the Canada-U.S. North, featured in the Canada-U.S. Law Review.
Mike holds masters degrees in law (LL.M.) from Duke University and social work (M.S.W.) from York University. He serves on the Boards of Directors of the Tommy Douglas Foundation and the Institute for Change Leaders and is an alumnus of the public leadership program at Harvard.