About mac

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 I’m an educational consultant who works with adolescents and adults with diagnosed learning differences, including ASD, ADHD, Dyslexia, SLD, and other associated challenges, along with co-occurring conditions. I also consult with organizations that serve individuals with learning challenges. I hold an Ed.D. in Educational Leadership and Change from Fielding Graduate University, where my 2007 dissertation focused on defining a new, strength-based paradigm for learning disabilities or neurodiversity.

I worked at Landmark College, a premier college for students who learn differently, since 1987, and retired at the end of the 2022-2023 academic year, My roles included nine years as English department chair and 11 years as Vice President for Academic Affairs and Dean of the College, during seven of which I also led the Student Affairs division. I held professor rank at Landmark between 2009 and 2023, teaching a wide range of courses in writing, Education,, Communications, and Leadership Studies.

I studied poetry as an undergraduate at Harvard with Seamus Heaney and Robert Fitzgerald, and was 1981 Hoyt Fellow at Boston University, where I received an M/A. in Creative Writing. My first book of poems, The New City, was published by 21st Editions in 2008. In the 1980s, I worked as a journalist for Newsweek in Manhattan and as a free-lancer for The Nation  in Manila during the period of the 1986 Philippine Revolution. Between 2017 and 2022 I volunteered my time as an investigative reporter and opinion writer for The Commons, an independent non-profit newsweekly in Windham, Vermont, winning several awards from the New England Newspaper and Press Association during that time. 

I live in Portland, Maine and frequently travel to New York City and Boston.