Michael Eisensmith is the Director of Regional Planning at the Northern Maine Development Commission in Caribou, Maine. He is responsible for regional strategic planning, program and project administration and is involved in project development and grant-writing for the organization. Mr. Eisensmith joined NMDC in 2003 to provide more effective comprehensive regional strategic planning. In that role, he has been one of the lead staff in guiding the Mobilize Northern Maine strategic planning process over the past several years and has primary responsibility for preparing the Comprehensive Economic Development Strategy (CEDS) for the region.

Mr. Eisensmith spent most of his career in the Public Housing field serving as the Executive Director of the Fort Fairfield (Maine) Housing Authority from 1972 until 1981 and as the Executive Director of the Sanford (Maine) Housing Authority from 1981 to 2001. In 2001, he moved back to northern Maine to serve as administrator of a FEMA program to engage community planning for crisis management and mitigation.

Mr. Eisensmith is currently active in the Maine Woods Consortium and also serves as a mediator for the Maine State Court system.