Michael Thervil is a Co-Owner, Co-Founder , Editor in Chief and a Journalist of both the American Now Network and VEDA World News. He is also the Editor in Chief and a Photojournalist for VEDA World News. He's also a graduate of UNC-Fayetteville State University where he obtained both his Bachelors and a Master of Arts in Sociology with a minor in Project Management. A former long term substitute teacher for grades 1-12 and college professor, Michael Thervil began his career in journalism not by any kind of formal training but because of the lifelong influence of his father; a Haitian immigrant by the name of Jean S. Thervil.