Michele Lynn

Michele Lynn Communications ensures that each client receives individualized attention. I collaborate with experienced and talented professionals in graphic design, photography, and events management to meet all of your communication and marketing needs. Whether you need compelling content, an innovative communications strategy, or publications that your readers enjoy from start to finish, Michele Lynn Communications provides the creativity, dedication, and personal attention to ensure your success.

Places

I lived in the Bronx, NY for the first six years of my life and spent the rest of my childhood in the suburb of Spring Valley, NY. I then lived in two of the greatest cities in the world—New York and San Francisco—before moving to Chapel Hill, NC, “The Southern Part of Heaven,” in 1998.

Passions

Spending time with family and friends; reading (anything from novels to nonfiction and memoirs); dancing; traveling (last big trip was to Argentina); seeing dance concerts, music concerts, and Broadway musicals; and following both Bruce Springsteen and Jackson Browne as they perform in concert around the country. Completing the New York Times online puzzles—crossword, mini-crossword, Wordle, Connections, Strands and Pips—every day.

Education

Master of Arts in liberal studies from North Carolina State University, with a concentration in communications and social justice. Member of Phi Kappa Phi honor society with a 4.0 GPA.

Bachelor’s degree in political science from Barnard College, the women’s college of Columbia University. Dean’s List.

Graduate, Coro Foundation Fellows Program in Public Affairs.

Graduate school course work in business administration at the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley.

Graduate, Leadership Chapel Hill.

Graduate, Leadership Triangle, Goodmon Fellow.

Selected Experience

District office manager, New York State Senator Roy Goodman
Development Associate, Cystic Fibrosis Foundation
Executive Director, Californians Against Handgun Violence
Regional Director, Handgun Control, Inc.
Legislative Aide, San Francisco Supervisor Tom Hsieh
Special Assistant, San Francisco Sheriff Mike Hennessey
Staff writer, San Francisco’s Noe Valley Voice newspaper
Community Development Director, Orange County Partnership for Young Children

Just some of Michele’s Community Involvement

Member of Refugee Resettlement and Immigration Justice Committee, Judea Reform Synagogue

Leader of a Judea Reform Synagogue team that co-sponsored a refugee family from Syria and is helping them resettle in the Triangle

Former board chair, Book Harvest
Mentor for eight years, Blue Ribbon Mentor-Advocate
Founder and President Emeritus, Barnard Alumnae Club of the Triangle
Board member and member of a range of committees, Associate Alumnae of Barnard College

Myers-Briggs Type Indicator

ESFJ. Responsible. Dependable. See what needs to be done before others do and do whatever it takes to make sure that it gets done. Conscientious helpers, sensitive to the needs of others and energetically dedicated to their responsibilities. ESFJs often take on the concerns of others as if they were their own. They will attempt to put their significant organizational talents to use to bring order to other people’s lives.