Mike Ball – Executive Director

Mike Ball is an author, humorist, and singer-songwriter. He received the Erma Bombeck Award for his internationally syndicated column, What I’ve Learned… So Far. He has four books in print, including the 2012 humor bestseller Banjos, Boats, and Butt Dialing and the novel, Olympus, Indiana. He’s also been also been a photographer, the president and creative director of an ad agency, a high school hockey coach, a scuba divemaster, and a nationally-competitive pairs water skier.

In 2006, Mike pulled together a group of professional folk and blues musicians and founded Lost Voices. He has been pursuing that mission ever since, and was named a 2023 CNN Hero.