Michael Vinson

COMMUNICATIONS, ESG, MEDIA & ARTS LEADER

Michael Vinson is Vice President of Corporate Affairs at Schreiber Foods, where he leads Communications, Sustainability, Community Relations, Government Relations and Industry Affairs. In this role, he also chair’s Schreiber’s ESG Leadership Council.

He is currently Immediate Past Board Chair at Wisconsin Watch. He was also Vice Chair of the board of directors at Arts Midwest, which serves a nine-state region in partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts. Previously, he held an arts leadership fellowship at Steppenwolf Theatre Company in Chicago, Ill. Michael has served as a grant panelist for the National Endowment for the Arts for both Theatre and Presenting & Multidisciplinary work.

A former journalist, Michael holds a Master's degree in journalism from Northwestern University, where he was a McCormick Scholar, and earned his bachelor's degree in Government at Harvard University, where he was a Jackie Robinson Foundation Scholar.

At Schreiber, Michael was founding chair the PRIDE business resource group, has served on the steering committee for the African-American Dairy Professionals business resource group and sat on the Diversity and Inclusion Council, led by Schreiber's President & CEO. Michael previously chaired Schreiber's Global Inclusion Team and served on the Advisory Board of Schreiber's Network of Women Business Leaders.

In January 2021, Michael was appointed to serve on the Equal Rights Commission for the City of Green Bay, Wis., where Michael lives with his husband and children.

Michael also served as board chair of Fair Wisconsin, Inc., the state's leading advocacy organization for the LGBTQ community, where he supported the organization in several board leadership capacities. He likewise served on the LGBT Caucus Advisory Board for the one of the two national political parties in the U.S.