Michelle King

Michelle is a learning instigator and love activist. A true production of US foreign policy, she was born in 1968 to an African American father and an Ethiopian immigrant mother. Her father was a serviceman in the US Army, and she spent half her childhood in West Germany, and the other half split among army bases in California, North Carolina, and Colorado. Long fascinated by the ideas and values around identity, Michelle grapples with a life-long inquiry of being raised an “American” outside of her country and reconciling what that actually means now living in America. All of her intersectional identities and lived experiences are the “big data” which have deeply informed her practice as a middle school, social science teacher for over 22 years. Michelle is a lifelong learner and is joyfully in search of ways for us humans to learn in public as well as to get out of our heads and into our heartsshe has experienced many changes in education and in society. She has a passion for students and families’ social and emotional growth to be a positive asset to the community in which we live.