About
Michael C. Davis is a cybersecurity practitioner with 30 years of experience spanning the U.S. Navy, the Pentagon, the Defense Information Systems Agency, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Boeing, and IBM. He is a Fellow at the Center for Digital Thriving at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, where his research focuses on how children and adults experience technology at the somatic level — before cognition, before rules, before training kicks in. He is a doctoral candidate in Cyberpsychology at Capitol Technology University and the creator of MindfulBytes, a K–5 digital wellness program serving 533 students across three New Mexico schools with 100% annual renewal. His work bridges the gap between traditional cybersecurity awareness training and the emerging field of cyberpsychology — asking not what people know about threats, but what their bodies already detect and their training never taught them to trust.