Alumni Profile - Michael Henry ’04

Noah Harlan

Mike Henry is a Legislative Correspondent for U.S. Senator Ben Cardin of Maryland, focusing on legislative issues related to energy, the environment, agriculture, housing, and transportation.  His primary responsibilities are to respond to incoming correspondence in these issue areas and to meet with Marylanders on behalf of the Senator.

Mike also helps to prepare Senator Cardin for hearings before the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works.  During his time in the U.S. Senate, Mike has engaged in legislative work on some of the most pressing issues of the day, including universal health care, global warming, energy independence, and the health of the Chesapeake Bay.  

Before taking his current position, Mike worked for the legal reform non-profit Common Good on an initiative to develop an alternative legal framework for compensating victims of malpractice and other patients who have suffered injury due to medical error.  Mike was also a Williams in Africa Fellow, which took him to Cape Town, South Africa, for six months to assist the international NGO Mothers 2 Mothers with efforts to prevent mother-to-child transmission of HIV and to support the health of HIV-positive mothers and their babies living in South Africa’s impoverished townships.

At Williams, Mike majored in Political Science.  He also interned for former U.S. Senator Paul Sarbanes in the summer after his first year at Williams.  Mike currently lives on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C.