Michael “Doc” Moates, Ed.D.
Journalist. Educator. Doctor of Education. Clinician and behavior analyst. Software engineer. And now, a nursing student. Each was a choice, from White House press briefings to college classrooms, from clinical practice to policy tables, from open-source code to a hospital floor. Six disciplines, one stubborn intention.
The Short Version
Journalist. Communications director. Doctor of education. Clinician and behavior analyst. Software engineer. College educator. And now, a nursing student. The through-line was never a job title, it was curiosity, and a need to be useful.
Writing
Most college courses are now taught by part-time and non-tenure-track instructors. The shift reshapes not just faculty careers, but the classroom experience students actually receive.
As climate-driven disasters grow more frequent, research on federal disaster recovery policy reveals a system built for isolated events straining under sustained demand.
A reflective entry written at the close of a difficult professional year, on what actually counted as success and how differently that looks from the inside versus how it reads on paper.
If your work lives where a few different worlds overlap, we'll probably get along.
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