The Oakland Achieves Partnership brings together community organizations with
a deep commitment to public education to share expertise and resources to remove barriers to school success, expand educational opportunities, and help all learners to excel from their earliest years through adulthood.
Michele is also the recipient of the 2015 Connecticut Nurse's Association Award for
Public Service and the University of Massachusetts Graduate School of Nursing's Lillian R. Goodman Award which recognizes a doctoral student who exemplifies a humanitarian approach
to leadership, scholarship, and a
deep commitment to the development of professional practice,
education and research.