From Trailer Parks
to the Pentagon.

Michael Charles Davis

Michael Charles Davis is a cybersecurity veteran, cyberpsychology researcher, and digital wellness innovator whose career spans 25 years across the Pentagon, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Boeing, and IBM. He is the CEO of Merek Security Solutions, Executive Director of the New Mexico Center for Cyber Culture & Resilience (NM-CCCR, a 501c3 nonprofit), and the founder of MindfulBytes, a K–5 digital wellness curriculum currently serving 533+ students across three New Mexico schools.

He is currently a Research Fellow at the Center for Digital Thriving at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, where his work examines how digital interactions shape children’s emotional and cognitive development. He is also a doctoral candidate in Cyberpsychology at Capitol Technology University, with his dissertation manuscript complete and defense forthcoming.

From a Black child in Southern trailer parks who learned to hide his intelligence to protect family relationships, to safeguarding classified networks at the Pentagon and Los Alamos, Michael’s journey embodies the intersection of lived experience and institutional expertise. He named his company after Ms. Sharon Merek, the pre-algebra teacher whose mentorship changed the trajectory of his life.

His forthcoming book, CTRL+ALT+HAPPINESS: How Teaching Presence Helps Us Raise Emotionally Connected And Resilient Humans In A Digital World, will be published through CTRL+ALT+Press, an independent publishing imprint he founded to publish work at the intersection of technology, consciousness, and human development.