She taught at Kendall Demonstration Elementary School, New Mexico School for the Deaf, and Sidwell Friends School in Bethesda, Maryland for the last fifteen years. Michelle received her BA and MA degrees in Early Childhood Education and ASL/English Bilingual Deaf Education from Gallaudet University. With her passion for bilingual early childhood education, she believes in empowering deaf and hard of children with full access to rich language through play and exploration. She is a mother of two teenage boys who are Deaf and a CODA.