Michael Dunbar

Background

About Michael Dunbar

As a Programs Coordinator at 826LA in Mar Vista, Mike Dunbar has spent the last five years publishing the stories of thousands of student writers during field trips to the imaginary publishing house Barnacle & Barnacle. He believes that the opportunity to freely explore reading and writing at a young age can spark a lifelong passion for learning, and cites as proof his own childhood of Saturday afternoons spent at the local library searching for books on monsters or perusing his brother's bookshelf where he discovered science fiction. Mike is a fifth generation Californian and native Angeleno, and holds an MA in English Literature from California State University Northridge. His thesis explored the connection between the aerospace industry he grew up around and the works of the sci-fi authors he read as a kid and still reads. His favorite book about learning is Education of a Wandering Man, which he considers a love letter to reading.