Mike Bishop is director of student leadership, focusing on supporting students in integrating their community engagement and leadership development, as well as cultivating a vibrant network of leadership educators at Cornell. For the past twenty years, Mike has helped young leaders connect their community engagement to academic scholarship, career exploration and personal development. Passionate about experiential education, Mike has created leadership programming in varied settings that emphasizes service to the public good, democratic teaching, reflective dialogue and mentoring. He views his work as strengthening democracy by providing emerging leaders with the tools to build healthy communities.