About Michael
Builder. Founder. Writer. Very queer traveler.
Michael Eisinger is based in Silver Spring, MD. Eleven years of program management: Holocaust survivor care at JFNA, oncology quality improvement at ASCO, $2.5M in sales and 37 medical education programs at Total Health, and a 501(c)(3) he founded in 30 days. He started writing about queer travel in between all of that, first out of necessity (the existing resources were wrong in ways that mattered), then out of habit, then out of something that started to look like a mission — 95 posts, 17+ countries, WanderSafe, a nonprofit, an education platform, a full ecosystem built around the premise that LGBTQ+ travelers deserve better information. He has been available for consulting since the site launched. He is currently looking for what he builds next.
The Story
My path into program management wasn’t a straight line. It started with a master’s degree in Holocaust and Genocide Studies — which probably sounds like an unusual foundation for operations work. But it taught me to sit with complexity, hold multiple perspectives, and build systems that actually serve real human needs rather than just satisfying internal process requirements.
At the Jewish Federations of North America, I helped run the Center for Advancing Holocaust Survivor Care — a 5-year, $17M program distributing funding to 50+ organizations providing trauma-informed support to 15,000 Holocaust survivors across the U.S. I built the grant management platform, reviewed 56 quarterly budgets for $4.5M in annual grants, planned 4 national conferences on trauma-informed care (100+ attendees each), and led the Center’s first peer-reviewed publication.
The through-line is taking complex, multi-stakeholder programs and making them run.
From there, I spent six years at the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) managing quality improvement programs in oncology education. When COVID shut down our in-person training, I redesigned it for virtual delivery. That expanded access to rural areas, cut costs by more than 50%, and kept a 100% completion rate on CDC-funded courses. I managed ~150 volunteer oncologists, oversaw 10 annual self-assessment activities, and introduced AI tools that improved operational efficiency by 25%.
At Total Health Information Services, I took on sole sales responsibility and drove $2.5M+ in attributed revenue across 506 invoices. I secured $185K in sponsorships in 10 days, supported 37 programs with P&L management, and contributed to a +$1.01M year-over-year margin gain. Custom SharePoint and AI workflows changed how the team handled day-to-day operations.
Each role built on the last. I find the friction in complex programs and fix it. Sometimes that means building a platform, sometimes it’s redesigning a workflow, sometimes it’s founding a nonprofit from scratch.
Not a Buzzword
AI Practitioner
Michael has been using AI as infrastructure since November 2022 — not as a productivity add-on, not as an experiment, but as the system layer that makes the rest of the work possible. The case studies below are not proofs of concept. They are deployed work, with real outcomes, at real organizations, under real constraints.
Case Study — Employer Deployment
25% Efficiency. Twice.
Problem: 37 medical education programs running on manual email, SharePoint, and ad-hoc tracking.
Approach: Deployed two production OpenAI API organizations — automated payroll notifications, executive summaries, compliance correspondence.
Outcome: 25% operational efficiency gain at Total Health. Same result independently at ASCO. Two employers, same outcome.
What I kept human: Every client relationship and every judgment call about what to send.
Case Study — Build at Scale
Two Sites. One Nonprofit. No Team.
Problem: A 22-page .com, a full .org nonprofit site, 95+ blog posts, and a 501(c)(3) to found — no engineering staff.
Approach: Claude Code multi-agent orchestration with persistent memory, automated publishing pipelines, agent-based deployment workflows.
Outcome: Both sites live. 152 million tokens processed — equivalent to ~228,000 pages of text. Nonprofit incorporated in 30 days.
What I kept human: Every word of the travel writing. Every editorial decision.
Case Study — Judgment Under Pressure
30 Days. One 501(c)(3). Zero Staff.
Problem: Filing a 501(c)(3) with no staff, no budget, and a hard deadline.
Approach: ChatGPT for all founding documents, program architecture, donor outreach pipeline (Sheets → AI → Zapier), scholar survey design, ambassador pitch deck.
Outcome: Wandering With Pride Inc. incorporated in 30 days. EIN obtained. Full program operational.
What I kept human: Every decision about mission scope and who we serve.
What I don’t automate: the travel writing, the personal essays, the blog voice. That’s not a productivity problem — it’s the point.
Nonprofit Founder
Built a 501(c)(3) from the ground up.
Wandering With Pride Inc. — a 501(c)(3) nonprofit scholarship program for low-income LGBTQ+ students. Founded 2024. EIN 99-3467744. Incorporated in 30 days.
In 2024, I founded Wandering With Pride Inc., a 501(c)(3) nonprofit empowering LGBTQ+ scholars through study abroad scholarships. I took it from idea to incorporated nonprofit with tax-exempt status in 30 days — built the website, launched fundraising, and started building partnerships with community leaders and organizations.
The nonprofit exists because study abroad is one of the most formative educational experiences available, and LGBTQ+ students face barriers — financial, safety-related, and psychological — that their peers often don’t. The scholarship program addresses all three.
WanderSafe (on this site) feeds directly into the nonprofit’s pre-departure safety toolkit. The blog builds the travel authority that gives the scholarship program credibility. The two sites are connected through my identity and a shared mission.
The systems I build still run without me.
That’s the point.