Prior to parenting Michelle trained as a lawyer and was an academic in law and social policy. Her teaching and publications involved communication research, and it was not until parenting that she found Marshall Rosenberg’s nonviolent communication.
Michelle has a JD from Martin Luther King, Jr. Hall School of Law, UC Davis and an MA in Jurisprudence and Social Policy from UC Berkeley. As an academic, she taught in Law and Society as UC Santa Barbara and served as the Director of Research and Education at UC Santa Barbara’s Center on Police Practices and Communication.
She’s been hosting nonviolent communication parenting practice group circles since 2008, teaches NVC parenting classes, and is an NVC trainer candidate. She, her spouse, and their three children live in Watsonville, California, where she has been homeschooling their children all their lives.