Michelle Blackburn
Director Of Policy at Institute for Educational Leadership
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolMichelle Blackburn is a Director of Policy with a decade of experience translating higher education law and data-driven research into practical strategy for colleges and digital learning environments. She specializes in FERPA, Title IX, Clery, and online learning policy—especially the intersection of privacy and access in MOOCs—and has led compliance, accreditation, and student success initiatives at institutions including MIT and Make School. Known for blending qualitative insight with big-data methods, she builds policy that centers ethics, equity, and student empowerment while aligning with institutional KPIs and OKRs. Michelle’s career spans operational leadership in student life, accreditation liaison work, and nonprofit program design, reflecting a rare combination of hands-on student support and systems-level policy craft. Based in San Francisco and pursuing doctoral work in law and public policy, she is particularly skilled at connecting students, policymakers, and practitioners to create equitable digital learning experiences.
10 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
M.Ed. Higher Education, M.Ed. Higher Education at Abilene Christian UniversityDoctorate Law and Public Policy, Doctorate Law and Public Policy at Northeastern UniversityProgramming languages (1)
Github contributions (3)
mlessly/mlessly.github.io
Apr 2016 - Jan 2022
Contributions:126 pushes in 5 years 10 months
personal-homepage
MakeSchool/institutional-plan
Feb 2020 - Apr 2021
A public repository communicating and tracking changes to Make School's vision and institutional plan
Contributions:3 commits, 1 push in 1 year 1 month
public-repositoryvisionplantrackinginstitutional
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