Director of Evaluation
Mass Audubon, United States
Michelle has spent her entire career in conservation and the environment. She began her journey in program evaluation as a graduate student at New Mexico State University in the Biology Department. There Michelle evaluated the impact of a national environmental education program in fourth grade classrooms across Las Cruces, NM. Since that time, Michelle has developed, delivered, and evaluated climate-based environmental education programs for K12 students, educators and administrators in New Mexico, Texas, Connecticut, and Massachusetts. She is the Director of Evaluation for Mass Audubon, a statewide conservation organization in Massachusetts. She designs and coordinates all things program evaluation across all audiences and program types in their Education and Engagement Department. Recently, she began expanding her evaluation practice to Policy and Advocacy at the Connecticut Roundtable on Climate and Jobs.
In her free time, Michelle hikes with her two dogs, Briscoe and Trixie; tends to her ridiculous amount of orchids and other indoor plants; spends a lot of time researching and implementing practices at home to reduce her carbon footprint including growing as much of her own food as possible, composting, thrift shopping when she needs something; and sharing her passion for climate justice with friends and family.
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