As Director of the ASU Foundation’s Moonshot Accelerator, Michelle designs and leads programs that support ASU teams in securing philanthropic investments of $10M or more to advance their moonshots: ambitious ideas that have the potential to transform society by tackling our greatest challenges. She also teaches and advances her applied scholarship in science and technology policy, public engagement, and public value science as an affiliate of ASU’s Consortium for Science, Policy, and Outcomes and the School for the Future of Innovation in Society. Michelle studied dance and biology during her undergraduate degree at the University of Iowa, and she earned her M.S. and Ph.D. in biology and society at Arizona State University.