Michael Brooks

Michael Brooks is a strategist and communication specialist with a passion for social innovation and long-term progressive change. He is a contributing writer for PSFK and his writing has appeared in Belief Net, Liberal Oasis and the Boston Green Scene. He co-authored The Buddha's Playbook. Michael ran his first communications campaigns for the Valley Arts Project, a regional arts non-profit he co-founded when he was twenty. VAP pioneered the use of social networking sites to promote and connect artists in 2004. Michael has advised a sustainable agriculture firm, a documentary film-maker, and conducted pattern research for fortune five hundred companies. He studied International Relations at Bates College and diplomatic history at Middle East Technical University in Ankara, Turkey. He blogs at the http://www.theelusiveobvious.com/