SM Graves Creative Associates
New ideas in Economic Development and Environmental Stewardship
Scott Michael Graves is founder of M the Media Project with partner and producer Cam McLeod. He is also founder of SMGraves Associates, an independent consultancy focused on building sustainable enterprise through community-minded entrepreneurship. In addition to M, the consultancy provides program design and management for business incubation that is designed to deliver additional value in real estate development. Team members hail from executive leadership development, engineering and design and environmentally sustaining place-making.
As contributing writer Scott offers a progressively-minded perspective from several series. Essays from an Artist, Politics, Done Local and Democratic Capitalism.
His early career as a performing artist and music educator shaped many of his ideas on politics, economic development and urban planning, having spent years traveling the United States, meeting its diverse people and experiencing the after-effects of de-industrialization throughout the country.