Andrew P. Michael is an environmentalist who has traveled the globe to implement evergreen, regenerative development projects for people, animals and the environment and an attorney who has specialized in advancing legislation to enhance sustainable personal, community, and global development. Michael is currently Co-Director of Partnerships For Change, a nonprofit implementing international projects to promote compassion, empower women, and abolish cruelty to people, animals, and the environment.

After passing the California state bar and graduating from U.C. Hastings College of the Law, Michael worked with State Senator John Vasconcellos drafting environmental legislation and co-authoring a national proposal to catalyze public- private partnerships to promote community empowerment. Following work in the legislature, Michael directed Partnerships For Change and designed and implemented the Community Summits and Resource Exchange Bank programs to realize greater local self- reliance. He devised plans and identified resources to convert military bases to sustainable and civil uses for the Center for Economic Conversion and coordinated national conferences on the sustainable development of former military bases, featuring a national summit at the Presidio Officers’ Club in 1996 with Mikhail Gorbachev and Oscar Arias as keynote speakers. Michael then served as Vice President of Sustainable Development responsible for the Bay Area Council’s water, energy, and environmental policy work from 1999-2011. He helped write and pass the country’s most advanced system to address Climate Change.

This year, Michael completed Arising Soul Pals: Keep Your Eyes on the Rise. Based on global stories sourced from Andrew’s visits to the Indian subcontinent, China, and Africa, Arising Soul Pals is meant to inspire action to halt the deterioration of nature and the environment by raising personal and global consciousness.