Mike Donovan is the CEO of Nexus Services, which funds the largest national civil rights firm dedicated to prison and civil rights litigation in America, and is the pastor of the First Christian Church Universalist in Harrisonburg, Virginia. Nexus Services is a privately owned company that offers legal services to marginalized and disenfranchised communities across the United States. The First Christian Church Universalist is an unaligned Universalist church founded in 2014. After serving seven months in the county jail, Donovan put himself through Western Governors University and studied at the Charlotte School of Law. Mike Donovan lives in Staunton, Virginia, with his life partner, Richard, whom he met in 1997 and married in 2016, and where they are proud to be raising their two sons.