Michael Jones is the Deputy Managing Director for North America at Change.org, where he oversees a team of people who work closely with petition starters -- providing them coaching on how to tell their stories, campaign power mapping, engaging decision-makers, and working with the media. He's worked on some of Change.org's biggest petitions -- including petitions to overturn the ban on gay Scouts and leaders in the Boy Scouts of America and campaigns asking the Obama administration to work with female-genital-mutilation (FGM) survivors to strengthen U.S. policy on FGM. He writes regularly on LGBT issues, global human rights problems, and entertainment trends. Before his time at Change.org, he served as the Communications Director for the Human Rights Program at Harvard Law School.