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Much of Chuck Miceli’s professional career has been in the field of criminal and juvenile justice. He was a Training Officer at a maximum-security prison, a Resource Center Coordinator for the National Institute of Corrections, and Chief of Curriculum at the Connecticut Justice Academy. He has also been a Curriculum Specialist, a certified Project Management Professional (PMP), Manager of the Connecticut Executive Management program and President of the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at the University of Connecticut. His co-authored text, Fire Behind Bars, was the first book in the U.S. to deal with deadly fires in secure institutions and put him on the national stage as a speaker and consultant. He has delivered programs on criminal justice, juvenile justice, professional development and management throughout the U.S. He has consulted to educational institutions, professional associations and government organizations at the local, state and national levels and he has authored professional journal articles, government profiles and nationally distributed lesson plans. Thousands of people have participated in his program, Making the Most of Your Time, Work, and Life and his co-authored course, Public Service Excellence. He has been is a columnist for the WXedge.com weather information website and is an award-winning poet whose poems and short stories have appeared in magazines and literary journals. Chuck is past Board Chairman for Every Dollar Feeds Kids (http://www.edfk.org), which raises money to feed children in the U.S. and abroad. He is also the Editorial Committee Chairman for Voices and Visions, the literary and arts journal of the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI) at UCONN Chuck was born one of eleven siblings in the coal-mining town of Pittston, Pennsylvania. He grew up in the tough East New York section of Brooklyn, New York, and now lives in suburban Connecticut with his wife, Judith.