Mike Seymour is President of The Heritage Institute (THI) (www.hol.edu), a progressive program of continuing education for K-12 teachers, in the Northwest, offering place-based earth and regional history programs--and leading edge educational curriculum--through field studies, workshops, distance courses and foreign travel programs that reach educators in the Northwest, around the US and the world.

Previously, Mike was a family therapist treating children, couples and individuals, as well as organizational consultant to schools and small businesses. Mike also had a 14-year career in business management in several national corporations, including Avon Products, Gilette Corp. and Spalding Sporting goods.

He is author of the recently published book, Educating for Humanity: Rethinking the Purposes of Education with contributions from well-known educators. The book may be previewed at www.educatingforhumanity.org

Mike is founder and President of the Board of Youth for a New World (www.youthnewworld.org) and he is also its acting Director. He initiated its first program, the AfricaAmericaExchange, linking students in Burundi, Central Africa and the USA. Mike has partnered with Burundian peace-maker Prosper Ndabishuriye through whose NGO, Youth in Reconstruction of the World in Destruction (www.jrmd.org), they are rebuilding a village for 800 refugee families who have been victims of the ethnic wars that ravaged the Burundi, Rwanda and Eastern Congo.

Youth for a New World is invovled in "inspiring and connecting youth locally and globally in support of a sustainable world that works for all. Its profile may be found on WiserEarth.

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