Michelle M. Osborne, is the principal and owner of Michelle M. Osborne, J.D. & Associates, LLC. She is a consultant, facilitator, and trainer with expertise in strategic planning and leadership development for nonprofits, businesses and governmental organizations. A former prosecutor and civil trial lawyer, Michelle has specific expertise in strategic and action planning; leadership development; improving workplace organizational and operational processes, systems, policies, and culture; the challenges and nuances of instituting and sustaining antiracist policies in the workplace; and the role of women in positions of power and leadership, including women of color. She provides customized training on equity and antiracism practice and conducts assessments and original research on the readiness and response of organizations to implement and deepen racial equity.

Michelle is well-versed on the legal and historic impact of racism on Black women and people of color in the movement to end domestic and sexual violence. She has served as a researcher on multi-community outreach challenges for a domestic violence agency, the director of a rape crisis center in Palo Alto, California, and as an educator on healthy sex attitudes and practices for teens and young adults at a Silicon Valley family services organization.

For three years, Michelle was the Race and Social Justice Manager at YWCA Seattle| King| Snohomish, one of the largest YWCAs in the country. She has led the boards of a San Francisco domestic violence agency and a women’s leadership institute and has served as an appointed commissioner to the Santa Clara County (California) Commission on the Status of Women and as a member to the State Bar of California’s committee on women in the law.

Michelle presently serves on the boards of Seattle, Washington-based Sexual Violence Law Center, and the Family Violence Appellate Project in Oakland, California.  Michelle received her undergraduate degree from Princeton University and her law degree from UCLA and is a member of the California bar.