Development and Communications ManagerWinrock International
Michelle is a dynamic, multi-lingual professional with over a decade of non-profit development and communications experience. Prior to joining the Wallace Center, she was Development Director for a New Orleans-based non-profit organization that provides the city’s youth pathways to success through culinary and hospitality-based training.
Michelle spent years studying and working within the U.S., France and Egypt. She worked as a consultant for a social purpose corporation working with global health foundations and wrote articles focusing on the intersect between pharmaceutical industry and global health. While working as a program officer at a journalism non-profit organization in Washington, D.C., she planned fellowships and conferences in Denmark, Turkey and Germany.
Michelle earned an Master of Arts in Middle East and Islamic Studies and a Bachelor of Arts in Communications. She speaks Malayalam, French and conversational Arabic.