Speaking + Presenting

Michelle is available to speak and present about her work in peace, healing, and justice. 
Please reach out to learn more about how Michelle can speak at your next event.

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 Topics of Expertise:

• Social trust and cohesion
• Countering disinformation through dialogue and storytelling
• Cross-cultural communication
• Justice, Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging (JEDIB)
• Psychological safety and trauma-informed practice
• ​Conflict management and violence prevention
• Restorative justice and reconciliation
• Women, Peace, and Security agenda (WPS)
• Monitoring, Evaluation, Learning, and Accountability (MEAL)
• Youth and community engagement
• Leadership and teambuilding
• Commemoration, memory, and celebration 

"Michelle creates an environment that we don't often get to inhabit, one with possibility that before had felt like the beaten-path, although not an open path."
- Ethan Knight, Executive Director, American Gap Association ​

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BIO: Michelle Helman (she/her/ella) is committed to supporting leaders to transform the way they solve complex problems by integrating a trauma-informed and equity-centered data justice approach that results in improved social trust, peace, and health outcomes.

For over twenty years, Michelle has worked with global leaders across public and private sectors to design, facilitate, and evaluate community-driven change strategies on projects such as supporting the Colombian peace process, public health education initiatives in Nicaragua, a US-nationwide Climate Science Adaptation initiative, and Community Safety & Violence Prevention efforts in Portland, Oregon.

​Michelle is a trained mediator, Rotary Peace Fellow, and Center for Public Service Senior Fellow. She is a Doctoral Fellow in Health & Peace Innovation at the University for Peace in Costa Rica, holds a MA in Peace & Conflict Studies and BA in Anthropology. Michelle is bilingual in English and Spanish which she learned through serving as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Perú.

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Selected Presentations

• Storytelling and Dialogue as Counter-Disinformation Tools - U.S. Department of State Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs & U.S. Embassy in Costa Rica
• Peace Innovation - Rotary International
• Creative Approaches for Communication and Conflict Resolution - GlobalPDX & Oregon Mediation Associatio
• Facilitation Essentials for Evaluators - Oregon Program Evaluation Network (OPEN)
• Continuous Quality Improvement - OPEN
• Community Building - Center for Public Service Connect, Portland State University
• Self-Care and Resiliency while working from home during COVID-19 - Prosper Portland
• Raising Voices: Collaborating for Change in our Community - Oregon Women’s Health Network with Oregon Health and Science University (OHSU)
• Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning from the Inside Out - DM&E for Peace and Search for Common Ground

Michelle presenting and leading a peacebuilding activity

Monitoring, Evaluation & Learning webinar link

Global Experience