Michele Lynn
Michele Lynn ensures that each client receives individualized attention. She collaborates 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.
Education
Bachelor’s degree in political science from Barnard College, the women’s college of Columbia University. Completion of the 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. Leadership Chapel Hill graduate.
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
Places
Michele lived in the Bronx, NY for the first six years of her life and spent the rest of her childhood in the suburb of Spring Valley, NY. She 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.
Current Community Involvement
Board Chair, Book Harvest
Mentor, Blue Ribbon Mentor-Advocate
Founder and President Emeritus, Barnard Alumnae Club of the Triangle
Elected Nominating Committee Member, Associate Alumnae of Barnard College
Passions
Spending time with family and friends; reading (anything from novels to nonfiction and memoirs); dancing; traveling (last big trip was to Ecuador); seeing dance concerts, music concerts, and Broadway musicals; taking comedy improv classes; and following Bruce Springsteen as he performs in concert around the country.
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, and will attempt to put their significant organizational talents to use to bring order to other people’s lives.
