Speaking & Presenting
Michelle is an emerging leader on peace, healing, and justice. She is regularly called upon to speak and present about her work. To learn more about how Michelle can be a speaker at your next event, please and contact us.
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"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 > Take the next step to inhabit possibility.
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BIO: Michelle Helman (she/her/ella) is committed to transforming the way people 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 who holds a MA in Peace and Conflict Studies and BA in Anthropology. She is bilingual in English and Spanish which she learned through serving as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Perú.
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 who holds a MA in Peace and Conflict Studies and BA in Anthropology. She is bilingual in English and Spanish which she learned through serving as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Perú.
Selected Presentations
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> Peace Innovation - Rotary International
> Creative Approaches for Communication and Conflict Resolution - GlobalPDX & Oregon Mediation Association > 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 > Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning from the Inside Out - DM&E for Peace and Search for Common Ground |
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Global Experience
