Michael Coleman

Mike brings people to the table.

As Director and Lead Storyteller, Mike ensures that critical voices weigh in on the decisions that impact and depict their lives. 

Through senior communications posts with UN agencies in Angola, Pakistan, and Viet Nam, and experience in social development, documentary production and international journalism, Mike brings years of experience crafting people-centred narratives to Common Thread. Years spent working to eradicate polio and responding to violence against health workers in Pakistan taught him to waste no time getting to the root of a problem.

Mike holds a MA in Political Communications from Goldsmiths at the University of London. He is part of Design for Health, a community of practice founded by USAID and the Gates Foundation. He has been a guest lecturer at NYU’s School of Global Public Health and a lead trainer for the US Center for Disease Control’s STOP Polio Programme. 

When he isn’t working, you can find him coaching his two daughters’ soccer team in Ireland, where he’s currently based (but not for long). He speaks intermediate French and Spanish.