While attending Gonzaga University, Micah helped found the school’s environmental organization, and spent a year using Florence, Italy, as a base for European exploration. That winter, he traveled through Norway for the first time to find and reconnect with his distant relatives there, the start of an ongoing love affair with Scandinavia. After graduating, Micah traveled to the Marshall Islands to serve as an English teacher on a remote island, then returned to the U.S. to gain experience in adventure education and sustainable agriculture. At the University of Montana, Micah co-directed the school’s sustainable demonstration house, organized a Montana delegation to attend the Terra Madre global food conference in Turin, Italy, and worked as a farmer and educator for college undergraduates at the campus farm. In addition to directing programs for National Geographic Student Travel, Micah also runs his own travel consultancy in Missoula, Montana. Fluent in Italian, proficient in Norwegian and French, and terrible-but-cheerful-about-it in Icelandic, Micah has led student and adult programs in Norway, Iceland, the Faroe Islands, Switzerland, Italy, France, and the Netherlands.