Michael Shank, Ph.D., is the Director of Media Strategy at Climate Nexus in NYC. Previously, Michael served as the Associate Director for Legislative Affairs at the Friends Committee on National Legislation and, prior to that, as US Congressman Michael Honda's Senior Policy Advisor and Communications Director. Michael's Ph.D. from GMU School for Conflict Analysis and Resolution, where he is Adjunct Faculty and a Board Member, is on Climate Conflict. Michael is also a Senior Fellow at the JustJobs Network and the Global Partnership for the Prevention of Armed Conflict, a former writer for the Washington Post and US News & World Report, a regular contributor to USA Today, The Guardian, Time, Newsweek, among others, and an analyst for CNN, FOX News, Al Jazeera, and RT.

Publications

• The Future of Climate Action: From Systems Change to Behavior Change By Palgrave MacMillan (Nov 01 2021)
• Conflict Resolution after the Pandemic: Building Peace, Pursuing Justice By Routledge (Oct 01 2021)
• L'ONU dans le nouveau desordre mondial (Chapter: UN and Climate Change) By Les Editions de l'Atelier (Jan 07 2016)
• The Legacy of Climategate: Undermining or Revitalizing Climate Science and Policy? By WIREs Climate Change (Apr 26 2012)
• Religion and Violence: An Encyclopedia of Faith and Conflict from Antiquity to the Present (Chapter: Victims of Religious Violence) By Routledge (Dec 17 2010)
• Strategic Arts-Based Peacebuilding By Peace and Change Journal, Vol 33, Issue 2 (Apr 01 2008)
• Understanding Political Islam in Somalia By Contemporary Islam, No 11562 (Mar 01 2007)
• Redefining the Movement: Art Activism By Journal for Social Justice, Vol 3, Issue 2 (May 01 2005)