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
Exclusionary discipline practices disproportionately affect students of color and students with disabilities. Evidence points toward more effective and equitable alternatives.
Assessment should illuminate what students understand and can do. Most conventional testing does neither, and we have better tools available.
Singlediscipline education optimizes for depth. But the most consequential problems, in health, policy, technology, and society, demand people who can think across boundaries.
If your work lives where a few different worlds overlap, we'll probably get along.
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