Baston, Michael

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