mwbettis

Michael has served as the director of Serenbe’s premier artist residency program where he executive produced and curated a selection of documentary short films, including 2022’s Virginia Film Festival Programmer’s Award winner Tuning René Marie. He has spent the better part of the past decade working in the nonprofits sector where he’s led projects for creative arts organizations and managed environmental policy initiatives, such as the very first national climate action plan for young children, Flourishing Children, Healthy Communities and a Stronger Nation: The US Early Years Climate Action Plan. He's commissioned and produced WARMING/WARNING, a visual conversation on the future of man-made climate change in the United States and the landscape of inequality for future generations that it stands to create; a partnership with renowned photojournalist B.A.Van Sise. Michael holds a Bachelor of Arts in History and Psychology and a Master of Arts in Humanistic and Existential Psychology, both from the University of West Georgia.

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