Meet Mike, Founder

What's on offer.

I call my years in public safety my “million-dollar experience”—one I wouldn’t pay a nickel for.

Like many in corrections and frontline public safety work, I carried too much, too fast, until the weight broke away part of me. The job bled into each corner of life. Stress stacked up like paperwork. Support was thin. Transparency was even thinner. 

Stepping back, I saw the system for what it was: stories written off as anecdotes instead of evidence. But those stories are what matter most in everyday life. They shape policy, training, and culture—if we let them.

That's why I started Frontline Peer™ — a space where justice-impacted people access the scholarship that matters, and work-as-done gets reimagined out loud in a voice that resonates with their own experience. And yes, where we sometimes laugh or cry at the absurdity of it all; since humour is medicine.

Today my research bridges corrections, safety science, and human-centred design. But Frontline Peer isn't about me. It's about us — the workers who carry the weight, the people the system processes, the families left navigating the aftermath, and everyone in between who knows that something isn't working but rarely gets asked what would.

Your story matters. Share it. Challenge the myths. Let's build something better, together.