Michelle Simotas

senior director


Michelle is passionate about supporting college faculty, administrators, and staff in reimagining educational spaces as liberatory and creative. She has served as faculty, department chair, director, dean, and classified staff at five different community colleges in California.

Michelle has supported colleges to lead equity-based change through leadership coaching, strategic consulting, project management, conflict management, professional development, liberatory design training, and equity-minded leadership.

Michelle holds an MFA in Literature and Writing from Mills College, an MS Ed in Online Teaching and Learning from Cal State East Bay, and is currently completing a doctorate in International and Multicultural Education with an emphasis in Racial Justice and a minor in Organization and Leadership from the University of San Francisco.