Primary Job Title Vice President Primary Organization 
Kennedy Krieger Institute
Location Baltimore, Maryland, United States Regions Greater Baltimore-Maryland Area, East Coast, Southern US Gender Male
Michael Bender is the vice president of educational programs and legislative affairs at the Kennedy Krieger Institute. He is also a professor of education, with a joint appointment, in pediatrics at the Johns Hopkins University and School of Medicine. Dr. Bender specializes in curriculum development for individuals with disabilities.
Dr. Bender
graduated from a State Teacher's College in Massachusetts in 1966 with a bachelor's of science in education. He received his master's and doctorate degrees in special and industrial education from the University of Maryland at College Park in 1969 and 1971, respectively. While at the University of Maryland, he was a doctoral fellow of the United States Office of Education and taught undergraduate students.
He also has been a public school teacher in Massachusetts and Maryland, and for the past 30 years has been on the faculty of the Johns Hopkins University. In the later capacity, he is a member of the Universities Academic Council, Promotions Committee and the Johns Hopkins Council on K-12 Education.
Dr. Bender has served on numerous community boards of directors. He has been appointed by the Governor of Maryland to chair the State Interagency Coordinating Council for Infants and Toddlers, and has been a Joseph P. Kennedy Foundation Scholar, a consultant to the United States Office of Education and a consultant to Sweden and Spain in the area of developmental disabilities.
