Michelle

Community Education Organizer

she/they

michelle@youthvsapocalypse.org

Born, raised, and currently seeking higher education in the Bay Area, Michelle has been a youth organizer since she was fourteen years old. Studying Landscape Architecture as a community organizer has made her reflect on the ways in which design has failed communities of color; for example, the lack of greenspaces in communities like East and West Oakland.

Michelle first began organizing with YVA in 2016, as a young person herself, at the height of No Coal in Oakland. Now, Michelle works with youth in Oakland to uplift and support the next generation of organizers.