Michael chaired the Ethics Review Board, Human Relations Commission, and Crime Coalition. He co-founded the Jeremiah Group, an interracial and interfaith community organization, and Shades of Praise interracial gospel choir. After Hurricane Katrina in 2005, he established Common Good, a diverse group of civil society leaders organized to promote inclusive decision-making in the re-building and transformation of the city.
He is senior fellow and stewardship director in the Conference on the Resolution of Intractable Conflict, and research associate in the Centre for the Study of Social Cohesion in the Department of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography in the University of Oxford.
