Mike Rowe

Mike Rowe is a TV host, writer, narrator, producer, actor and spokesman. He became the host of the Discovery Channel’s “Dirty Jobs.” Throughout the show, he traveled to all 50 states and completed 300 different jobs, transforming cable television into a landscape of swamps, sewers, ice roads, coal mines, oil derricks, crab boats, hillbillies and lumberjack camps. Mike runs the mikeroweWorks Foundation, which awards scholarships to students pursuing a career in the skilled trades. Forbes identified Mike as one of the country’s 10 Most Trustworthy Celebrities in 2010, 2011 and 2012. In addition to his foundation, Mike’s website, profoundlydisconnected.com, focuses on all the issues related to widening skills gap, aging workforce, high unemployment and millions of unfilled jobs. It also provides comprehensive resources for anyone looking to explore those vocations, as well as continue to focus the country on the real dilemmas facing our trade workers, miners and framers.