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M.P. Summers

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MP Summers is an internationally recognized professional environmentalist specializing in regulatory compliance and life cycle sustainability.

His career began in 2005, when he dropped out of college and pursued a contract position supporting the Peacekeeping Mission in Darfur. He has since executed environmental and sustainability projects throughout Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Americas.

A Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and a member of both the Hakluyt Society and Alianta, MP Summers has a Bachelor's degree from Jacksonville State University and a Juris Doctor from Birmingham School of Law. MP currently lives in Alabama with his wife, son, and two dogs.

His debut novel, Sketches from the Periphery, focuses on the intersectional ...more

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