Michael McHugh

Since 2014, Michael McHugh has worked as a full-time employee of The New School’s Lang College and studied as a part-time graduate student at The New School for Social Research, where this May he will complete his master’s degree in liberal studies. Michael’s graduate thesis focuses on worker cooperatives, and how they offer a unique opportunity to transcend capitalism now, while also creating fundamental, lasting change. Specifically, his thesis imagines The New School’s own transition to a worker cooperative structure, while carefully considering the benefits of, challenges to, and motivations for doing so. Prior to The New School, Michael worked for The Posse Foundation. He earned a bachelor’s degree in sociology from Grinnell College, where he graduated Phi Beta Kappa and with honors.