Washington Cash

Mike Skinner

Program Director

Mike's personal mission is to contribute to the elimination of poverty and the development of individual economic self-sufficiency and strong local economies. Mike joined Washington CASH in August 2007 after serving as the manager of strategic education at the Association for Enterprise Opportunity, a nonprofit trade association for U.S. microenterprise development organizations. Before AEO, Mike was the program developer for the Jumpstart Fund, a microenterprise development program serving refugees and other newcomers in the Seattle area. He was also active in the development of the emerging Washington State Microenterprise Association. From October 2003 to July 2004, Mike was in Central America where he volunteered with a microcredit organization serving Mayan women business owners in the Western Highlands of Guatemala and helped a group of low-income business women in Nicaragua form a self-help bank. In addition to his microenterprise development experience, Mike spent over ten years as a corporate lawyer in New York, Seattle and San Francisco. Mike has a B.A. in Philosophy from the University of Washington in Seattle and a law degree from Columbia University School of Law in New York.

Mike can be reached at mike@washingtoncash.org.