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Meet Mike Festa
Mike Festa is state director of AARP Massachusetts, based in Boston, which serves 800,000 members age 50+ in the commonwealth.
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- Meet Mike Festa
- Creating High Quality XR Content for the Web Mike Festa ARIA 2019
- Early career
- Elected office
- Personal life
- References
He has had a longstanding law practice in his hometown of Melrose. He is the former President of the Carroll Center for the Blind, located in Newton, Massachusetts. He is also an Adjunct Professor at Suffolk University, Graduate School of Public Management. Festa formerly served as the Secretary of Elder Affairs for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. His resignation as Secretary of Elder Affairs was announced by the Governor's Office on January 31, 2009. He was formerly the state representative for Melrose, Massachusetts and parts of Wakefield, Massachusetts. Festa ran for Middlesex County District Attorney in 2007 but dropped out of the race.
Creating High Quality XR Content for the Web | Mike Festa | ARIA 2019
Early career
He attended Melrose High School, 1972; Tufts University, B.A. 1976; Suffolk University Law School, J.D. 1979
From 1979 to 1981 he held office as the assistant district attorney, Middlesex County. Festa has also been an attorney in private practice since 1981.
Elected office
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Personal life
Festa is married to Sandra Festa (since 1980), with two children: Michael, age 32, a computer engineer at WayFair, Boston Massachusetts, who graduated from George Washington University in 2006, and Danielle, age 30, a painter, graphic artist and web-designer, who graduated from UMASS Amherst.