Michael Baston
Cuyahoga Community College
Education: Doctoral degrees, St. John Fisher University and Brooklyn Law School; bachelor’s degree, Iona University
What Guides My Decision-Making: The best interests of our students, our employees and our community
Favorite Quote: “Live each day like it’s your last, ‘cause one day you gonna be right.” — Ray Charles
Whom I Would Call for Advice: My wife
Most Important Leadership Quality: Listening
If I Could Have Any Other Job: Life coach for athletes and entertainers
The Advice I’d Give Someone New: Understand your community before you seek to be understood by it.
My Biography Would Be Called: Sunshine on a Cloudy Day
What I’d Tell 16-Year-Old Me: Courage is not the absence of fear; it is the full commitment to be who you are, wherever you are.
Biggest Regret: Not buying stock in Moderna
Who’d Play Me in a Biopic: Dwayne Johnson