Michael Sanders is the Senior Influencer and Public Relations Manager at the Hip Hop Caucus. With more than 15+ years of experience, he has served as a global communications and marketing leader across tech, education, and arts and entertainment brands.
Most recently, Michael led social impact communications and marketing at Sony Interactive Entertainment/PlayStation, working cross-functionally to diversify the gaming industry’s workforce and early career talent pipeline. At Apple, he led communications change management in support of supply chain and innovation storytelling, and at Google, he led community programs and marketing for Google for Education’s education impact team, serving millions of teachers worldwide. Before Google, Michael led education and empowerment marketing at Meta, supporting a range of early coding, digital citizenship, and tech outreach programs for students and teachers, and diversity business programs for small business owners through Meta Elevate.
He’s worked on Tony award-winning Broadway shows at Lincoln Center Theater, and led the management, implementation, and growth of Howard University’s award-winning global social media strategy and digital presence; he served as content lead for Susan G. Komen’s Know Your Girls campaign, a global initiative focused on educating Black women about their breast health awareness, and has counseled a range of nonprofit and social good clients with their PR and digital marketing campaign strategies, including Sierra Health Foundation, Partnership for a Healthier America, JSI, DC Youth Orchestra Program, WNYC, and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) to name a few.
Michael has also managed and supported PR and event communications, production, and strategy for Stanford University, the Arts and Humanities Council of Montgomery County, GLAAD, Tribeca Performing Arts Center, PBS Kids, New York Fashion Week, and the US Open; he has also served as communications faculty at Louisiana State University, University of Maryland Global Campus, University of Texas Permian Basin, The Washington Center, and Lamar University.