Michael Santos is an attorney at the National Law Center on Homelessness & Poverty whose work focuses on advocating for homeless youth access to education through public education, impact litigation, and policy advocacy. Before joining the Law Center, Michael had a long history of working on the rights of low-income and underrepresented communities through the Department of Health and Human Services and various nonprofit organizations. Most recently, he was a fellow at the Clinton Foundation where he worked on an initiative to decrease the upward trend of childhood obesity in the United States. Michael graduated from Brown University with a double concentration in Biomedical Engineering and Ethnic Studies. He received his J.D. from the University of Southern California Gould School of Law.