Michael Partis is the Executive Director of the Bronx Cooperative Development Initiative: a nonprofit focused on increasing shared wealth and community-based planning with working class Bronx residents. He is also co-founder of The Bronx Brotherhood Project, a community-based college success program for Black and Latino teens at the New Settlement College Access Center. Formerly, he was the Director of South Bronx Rising Together (SBRT): a collective impact initiative dedicated to improving health, grade-level reading and math, and post-secondary outcomes in the neighborhoods of Morrisana and Crotona Park West. For 8 years, Michael lead community-informed policy development and partnership at the Young Movement - a New York-based, grassroots nonprofits focused on social entrepreneurship.