An experienced educator, director and program leader, Michelle works at the cross-roads of international education, collaborative arts and community engagement.  

She leads projects and programs, in the US and overseas. She offers workshops in collaboration, public speaking and story-telling.  She translates French plays, directs - and occasionally performs. 

Michelle leads arts programs at the International School of San Francisco (Head of the Arts Department & Artistic Director of the Theater Program). She was also the school's founding Urban Engagement Coordinator (2018-23), taking the school's work into the wider community through internships, a speaker series and local-global partnerships.

In France, she works with l'ESCA, Studio Sophie Akrich and the Programme Baudelaire. 

RECENT PROJECTS & UPCOMING  NEWS!

Michelle is passionate about helping coach and empower educators, entrepreneurs and activists to share their voices more authentically and expansively. On September 13-14 she will lead a 6-hour, in-person workshop in Berkeley on "Empowering Presence, Voice and Story" for women. (More information and sign-up here.)  

In Spring 2026, she led a workshop on Voice & Story in the Age of AI at Center for Transformative Teaching's coonference. In November  2026, she will lead a similar workshop for educators at The International School of Boston's AI in K-12 Education: Navigating the Challenges conference. 

She has previously led workshops at Teacher's College Columbia, the National Association of Independent Schools, Arts Education Partnership and the Center for Spiritual and Ethical Education. At the CSEE, she developed a 3-part webinar on how story-telling and the arts can empower individuals, build teams and strengthen community which she continues to share with schools and other businesses. 

OTHER PROJECTS IN 2026

Michelle continues to develop international collaborations, in the spirit of her long-standing exchange with Moïse Touré and Les Inachevés. The importance of nurturing our shared humanity and working to build connections across borders took shape in Hospitality: Territory of Humanity, and she continues to nurture projects and collaborations along these lines. 

She is continuing work on "Everyone's a Hamlet" developed with Tom Bentley-Fisher. This was performed at Playground's FreeFest in 2025, and Inferno Theater Company's Diaspora Festival in 2026.

She continues to co-direct the Programme Baudelaire (at the University of Paris) with Cécile Ladjali, which in 2026-27 is focused on the theme of madness.