Mike Foley, a former BYU–Hawaii Alumni Association president and a semi-retired digital media content specialist, is originally from Salt Lake City, Utah; but after serving a mission in Samoa in the mid-1960s, he permanently moved to Hawaii and married a local girl (who he met at the Polynesian Cultural Center).
After graduating from Church College of Hawaii (1970), he taught at CCH, UH/Manoa, and in Bandung, Indonesia, before “retooling” and switching careers. Since then, he has worked as a journalist, in PR and advertising, and has done a signifcant amount of work in the local community as well as BYU–Hawaii, the Polynesian Cultural Center, Hawaii Reserves, Inc., and the Church in Hawaii. Mike, who also goes by his Samoan/Hawaiian name of Mikaele, has freelanced from his home office for the past 20-plus years