Michael Blauw is the Director of Strategic Partnerships and Impact at the Center for Civic Education. He is a proud alumnus of the Center’s flagship program, We the People: The Citizen and the Constitution. The program ignited in him a passion for political science and philosophy, eventually leading him to become an educator. He graduated from Hope College as a certified social studies teacher with a B.A. in political science. He then taught English in Malaysia as a Fulbright Scholar (where he met his wife). Once back in the United States, he taught several years of government, AP government, English, and, of course, We the People in his home state of Michigan and in Nashville, Tennessee. He then attended the Harvard Graduate School of Education and worked at Harvard’s Center for Ethics managing programs in educational ethics and civic education. He most recently worked for Wisconsin’s Department of Public Instruction as an education policy consultant. He, his wife, and his two boys live in Madison, Wisconsin, and enjoy hiking, kayaking, fishing, most sports, and, obviously, cheese curds.