Mike Welt is associate producer on the Baseball and Prohibition series. He began his career producing business news at CNN, and subsequently received his Master of Journalism degree at UC Berkeley. His independent film, Miles Above, is a vérité-style look at the final moments of the tragic Columbia Shuttle re-entry. Prior to joining Florentine, he worked on a series of historical documentaries at Lucasfilm, where he wrote and directed films about the history of jazz and the early aviation pioneer, Anthony Fokker, and co-wrote a biography of Ho Chi Minh. Mike currently lives in Jackson Heights, Queens.