Michelle received her B.A. in Social Psychology from U.C. Berkeley in 2005. While attending U.C. Berkeley, Michelle interned at the Wiley Manual Courthouse in the pre-trial services department, tutored inmates at San Quentin State Prison, and worked for one year at the National Council on Crime and Delinquency, where she authored a paper on the prison and parole systems in California for women. After leaving U.C. Berkeley, Michelle spent two years at the Center for Court Innovation in New York City, working on grant writing and project reporting. She was also a math tutor for ex-offenders through the Fortune Society. Michelle is currently interested in social control and deviance, legal sociology, and inequality.