MichaelAaron Flicker - '01

MichaelAaron Flicker is a 2001 graduate of Ridgewood High School. During his high school tenure, MichaelAaron was the student representative to the Board of Education and was most proud of starting the Quality of Student Life Committee which reconstructed two high school bathrooms in hopes of reducing graffiti across the school. MichaelAaron won the Irwin B. Somerville Award which is awarded a student who most exemplified the ideals of Ridgewood High School, humanitarianism and giving back. He was also awarded the Arthur Little Scholarship for Young Entrepreneurs and the Derekh Eretz Award from the Jewish Theological Seminary. In high school, he participated in the RHS Marching Band for four years where he played the trombone as a section leader and became the Band Council President his senior year. MichaelAaron graduated from the Honors Program at Boston College in 2005 with dual degrees in Political Science and Philosophy. He created a Quality of Student Life Committee at Boston College which, among other things, brought the New York Times and Boston Globe free to students each day. He wrote his honors thesis, "Discerning Truth - A Life's Journey" on the limits of language and the pursuit of better interpersonal communication. He received a number of academic honors including the National Dean's List, Alpha Sigma Nu - National Jesuit Honors Society, National Society of Collegiate Scholars, The Order of the Cross and Crown and Boston College's most prestigious civic leadership award, the Brian D. A. Hall Leadership Award. MichaelAaron is the founder and president of XenoPsi, a multi-award winning NYC-based strategic marketing, advertising and business consulting agency that specializes in helping brands tackle their toughest business challenges. XenoPsi excels at bringing innovative thinking to a variety of businesses and MichaelAaron has worked with many of the country's leading brands including Nike, JPMorgan Chase & Co, Chubb, AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals, ACE Insurance, Evan Williams Bourbon, and Hpnotiq Liqueur. He started XenoPsi as a freshman at Ridgewood High School in his parent's basement and over the past 20 years has grown it to 45 employees. MichaelAaron remains actively involved in the Ridgewood community. He is co-chair of Super Science Saturday - Ridgewood's largest non-competitive academic event which just celebrated its 30th anniversary. MichaelAaron became involved in this program as a third grader and has been co-chairing this community-wide event for 14 years. He also runs the Connor Donohue Music Fellowship which raises and awards money each year to a high school student at further build their love of music and leadership skills. In addition, he chairs the RHS Band Council Alumni Scholarship and the Helen Aslanides Scholarship for Social Justice, honoring one of his favorite teachers at RHS. MichaelAaron is grateful for the education he received at Ridgewood High School and for the wonderful and caring teachers and administrators who inspired his passion for community service. He is also grateful for his loving wife Erika Wasenda, their 7-month old son, Max Theodore Flicker and his friends and family able to celebrate with him today. Inducted 2018.

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2001

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