Gerade DeMichele is an educator and faculty member at the City University of New York's Hunter College, Graduate Center and the School of Professional Studies. He has also held administrative appointments at the City University and State University of New York, including that of Vice President and Deputy to the President at Hunter College. His research interests include education leadership, education policy, online and blended learning, multimedia instructional models, and research methods. He is also the author of sixteen books and numerous articles on the subjects of education leadership, technology, and higher education in the post-recession era. He has been involved in major grants from the U.S. Department of Education, the National Science Foundation, IBM, and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. He was a member of a research project funded by the U.S. Department of Education – Institute for Education Sciences, the purpose of which was to conduct a meta-analysis on "what works" in postsecondary online education (2017-2019). In 1998, he co-founded CUNY Online, a multi-million-dollar initiative funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation that provides support services to faculty using the Internet for course development. He was a founding member and continues to serve on the Board of Directors of the Online Learning Consortium (formerly the Sloan Consortium). His blog, which he started in 2009, has averaged over 600,000 visitors annually. He has received wide recognition for his scholarship and research, including being named the 2010 recipient of the Alfred P. Sloan Consortium's (now the Online Learning Consortium) National Award for Outstanding Achievement in Online Education by an Individual. Our Bathtub Wasn't in the Kitchen Anymore! is his first work of fiction.
