Currently, Michele-Lee is a visiting researcher at the Stockholm Resilience Centre, where she co-leads the Transformations stream. In all of her work, Michele-Lee divides much of her time between social innovation, transformation and water governance research and the mobilization thereof, with the aim to build understanding and capacity of both students and practitioners on the complex social-ecological challenges. Previously, she led the design and delivery of the Rockefeller Global Fellowship on Social Innovation.