Michael j shank biography

Michael Shank is married and lives in Colorado with his family.
Michael Shank, Ph.D., is the Director of Media Strategy at Climate Nexus in NYC. Previously, Michael served as the Associate Director for Legislative Affairs.
Michael Shank (born September 22, 1966) is an American race car team owner and former race car driver born in Columbus, Ohio.

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Expertise

Sustainable Development; Climate Policy; Resource Security; Poverty, Income Inequality; Conflict, Violence, Peacebuilding; US Foreign Policy

In-Country Work

Afghanistan, Australia, Austria, Bangladesh, Belgium, Cameroon, China, Cuba, Denmark, England, Finland, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Iran, Italy, Jordan, Lebanon, Malaysia, Morocco, Netherlands, Norway, Pakistan, Philippines, Poland, Singapore, Somalia, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Syria, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, Vatican, Venezuela, Yemen.

Experience

Dr. Michael Shank most recently served as the Managing Director at Beyond Plastics, and prior to that, the Director of Engagement at the Carbon Neutral Cities Alliance, a partner of the Urban Sustainability Directors Network. Michael’s professional career includes leading press and/or policy shops at the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network, Climate Nexus (clients included the United Nations, Vatican City, The White House, and Fortune 500 Companies), U.S. Congress, Friends Committee on National Legislation, Institute for Economics and

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About

Michael Shank is a husband, father, and grandfather. He and Jonetta have been married over three decades, and have four sons and two grandchildren. He earned a Bachelor of Science in Management Communication from Southern Christian University and is currently working on a Masters. Michael spent four years in pulpit preaching and ministry, along with thirty-one years of individual, one-on-one evangelism experience.

The Shank family moved from southern Illinois to Colorado in the Spring of 2019 and resides in the Wolf Ranch area of Colorado Springs. Michael and Jonetta love to camp, fly fish, hike, and ride quads, but their passion is evangelism.

Prior to writing Muscle and a Shovel, Michael created and produced the original Why Are There So Many Churches video in cooperation with WVBS (2008).

He has written five publications and hundreds of articles to date, with an accumulative sales of hundreds of thousands of copies worldwide, and some eighty-thousand plus baptized via God’s Word and his runaway best-seller Muscle and a Shovel. The sequel to Muscle and a Shovel titled

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Michael Shank

American auto racing driver

For the actor and musician, see Mike Schank.

For other people with similar names, see Michael Shanks.

Michael Shank (born September 22, 1966) is an American race car team owner and former race car driver born in Columbus, Ohio. Before leaving driving to concentrate on car ownership, he ran one race in the 1996–97 Indy Racing League season, the 1997 Las Vegas 500K at Las Vegas Motor Speedway. He started racing in 1989, winning SCCA Ohio Valley Region's Novice Driver of the Year. He also won the 1996 Player’s/Toyota Atlantic C2 championship.

As an owner of Meyer Shank Racing, he was car owner for Sam Hornish Jr. when he won the 1999Formula Atlantic series Rookie of the Year title. In 2006, his car, driven by Justin Wilson, A. J. Allmendinger, Oswaldo Negri and Mark Patterson, finished in 2nd position overall and in the Daytona Prototype class in the Rolex 24 Hours of Daytona. Shank has been twice named Formula Atlantic Team Owner of the Year.

Hélio Castroneves won the 2021 Indy 500 while racing for the team. It was Castroneves'