Mike Massey, DU Law Professor
I was born in Wichita, Kansas. ‘Nuff said. I left the wheatfields for the mountains (who can blame me?) to go to school at the University of Denver (they gave me a lot of money to go there). After graduation, they gave me a lot more money to go to law school, and I didn’t resist. I graduated from law school and got married (to a Kansas girl whom I didn’t know in Kansas) and went to work for a small securities law firm all in the same year. I tried my hand at politics. When that didn’t work, I tried my hand at a community theatre. I like show business better than politics (but aren’t they really the same thing), but there was no money in it. Along the way, my wife and I had a little girl who isn’t so little anymore. She and her husband own an early childhood learning center. I finally decided I had had enough of law practice, and became a law professor at DU, of course. I did that until I told the Dean it was time to retire. He said I don’t think so, and I ended up running a mentoring program which has grown to about 1100 participants. One of those participants is your buddy Doug Brown whom I have known since undergraduate school. If we have time I’ll tell you and the trip to New York City Doug and I took with the DU Men’s Glee Club during which Doug and I were the guests of Doug’s Uncle Otis. The most amazing trip to New York I have ever had. Doug has helped a lot with my mentoring program over the years, and I understand mentoring is what you’d like to hear about today. I started the mentoring program while I was a teacher at DU.