Michelle is Executive Director and founder of SAYes.

After working in the music industry for 12 years, Michelle then re-trained and qualified with the UK Football Association as a coach. She went on to coach football in London and New York for three years before returning to Roehampton University in 2004, to become a full-time student.

At University, she studied Education with additional subjects in Human Rights and Philosophy. In 2007, she graduated from Roehampton University with a BA (Hons) in Education.

In 2008, Michelle received the Froebel Guild Award for her dissertation on children in care in South Africa and the UK.  It was the same year that she moved to Cape Town, where she has lived and worked ever since, leading SAYes.