Michael Thomas Duffy is Managing Director for Victory. He came to Victory after having served as Director of the Charter School Office for the New York City Department of Education, working under the leadership of Chancellor Joel Klein. Prior to this position, Duffy was the Executive Director of City on a Hill Charter Public School, in Boston and was a founding board member of the MATCH Charter High school of Boston. Duffy’s efforts in education grew out of his work in the civil rights movement–in 1991 Duffy was appointed by the Governor as Chairman and Commissioner of the state civil rights commission of Massachusetts. He has a Masters in Public Policy degree from the JFK School of Government at Harvard University and graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Trinity College in Connecticut with a degree in Economics.