From Policy to Practice
Mike Mastrobuoni graduated from Northeastern University in 2008, entering the workforce in the middle of the Great Recession. He began his career at the Cambridge Housing Authority, where
he learned what it meant to help run a large organization and saw firsthand how operations, finance, and strategic planning intersect. At the same time, he pursued a master’s degree in urban and regional policy at Northeastern. While many of his peers steered away from numbers, he was drawn to using them as a way to support a wide variety of projects. That interest eventually led him to Somerville, where he found a role in budgeting that sits at the intersection of policy and finance.
Publication Date: October 2025
Author: Manuela Sasot
