Misael Martinez, Director of Movement City, has over 12 years of experience in the youth development field, a Bachelor's Degree from Lesley University in Human Services Management, and a Master's from Cambridge College. He started his career serving the young people of Lawrence at the Arlington School through a literacy-tutoring program. He worked as a parent liaison, teacher and truancy outreach worker in the Lawrence Public Schools, where he eventually became the district-wide Parent Education Leader. While working at the schools, he created the Strictly Positive TV program to promote positive community events and also founded the Unity Project in response to the killing of a childhood friend and the community need for constructive youth activities. Misael continued on to the Adelante Youth Center in Lawrence, where he served as the Academic Program Director before leaving to dedicate himself full time to directing the Hope Street Youth Center, a dynamic, grassroots, performing-arts based nonprofit which merged with Lawrence Community Works in 2004. As Director of LCW's Movement City, Misael has grown the program to serve more than 200 youth annually with an array of art, design, and technology-based programs as well s leadership development, social and emotional support, intensive academic mentoring and college preparation and civic engagement. Misael is a bilingual and bicultural Dominican-American resident of Lawrence, and is a loving husband to Judy Martinez and the proud father of Gilome, Nia, Michac, and Alina