Michael Mejias
Guest/Teaching Artist
Michael Mejias has been at Writers House for over two decades and founded the Writers House Intern Program (WHIP) in the year 2000. Through WHIP, he’s helped place nearly 400 young people in their first publishing jobs, with a third of those placements coming from BIPoC communities. He’s also the principal designer of the Writers House Mentor Initiative (WHMI), a completely virtual mentoring and training experience, for BIPoC-identifying people, who are either interested in or in the initial stages of a publishing career.. Additionally, Mr. Mejias is the founding executive director of Inkluded and the principal designer of Inkluded Academy, a free publishing course for college graduates from the BIPoC space.