Micheal Flaherty is Co-Founder and President of Walden Media

Walden Media

Walden Media is a children's film production and publishing company best known as the producers of The Chronicles of Narnia series. Its films are based on notable classic or award-winning children's literature, compelling biographies or historical events, documentaries and some original...

, a Production Company, which focuses on films that entertain and educate. Through Walden, he has developed educational materials and programs that insight enthusiasm in the classroom and connect learning to entertainment.

Prior to founding Walden Media in 2001, Flaherty designed innovative curricula in the Boston Public School System

Boston Public Schools

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, which captured national attention from The Wall Street Journal

The Wall Street Journal

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and The Boston Globe

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. He designed the curriculum and taught for the Steppingstone Magnet Program for students in the worst public school cluster in Boston. As a result of his curriculum, the percentage of minority students in the troubled school district who gained admissions to Boston’s elite exam schools increased by more than 1000%.

As an author, Flaherty has been published in National Review

National Review

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, The Boston Business Journal and American Spectator. He also worked as a speechwriter for William Bulger, former President of the Massachusetts Senate

Massachusetts Senate

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, and Tom Reilly

Thomas Reilly

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, the Massachusetts Attorney General

Massachusetts Attorney General

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. Flaherty is a graduate of Tufts University

Tufts University

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Flaherty lives in Lexington, Massachusetts

Lexington, Massachusetts

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with his wife, who he married in October 1999, and their three children, who he homeschools. He is a devout Catholic.