Michele Prichard is Director of the Common Agenda program which guides collaborative efforts to change public policy through cutting edge research, alliance-building and community organizing, including current efforts to establish Green Zones in toxic hotspot communities.  

In 2014, she led the UCLA Community Scholars which engaged graduate students and community leaders to research strategies to address climate change in low-income neighborhoods of LA. Michele was appointed by Mayor Villaraigosa in 2011 to the Harbor Community Benefit Foundation, a nonprofit dedicated to improving the Port communities of Wilmington and San Pedro.  Michele has served as Senior Advisor to California Calls since 2012, and as a Senior Fellow in the UCLA School of Public Affairs since 2007, where she earned her M.A. in Urban Planning in 1989. Michele is co-author of Hidden Hazards and  LA Rising, both found on the Liberty Hill website. 

In April 2012, Michele received the Distinguished Service Award from the Council on Foundations, the association’s highest honor and Liberty Hill’s Founders Award at the 2015 Upton Sinclair Award Dinner.