Summary
Michelle Thorne is a strategy leader and advocate building a fossil-free internet as Director of Strategy at the Green Web Foundation, where she also edits Branch magazine and created the Green Web Fellowship. With 11+ years of experience across climate, digital rights, and open web initiatives, she co-founded the Green Screen Coalition and served in multiple senior roles at Mozilla, including Sustainable Internet Lead and founder/producer of Mozfest. Michelle blends program design, coalition-building, and editorial curation to turn technical and policy ideas into movements, and she brings academic insight as a visiting professor at Northumbria University. An early steward of global open knowledge at Creative Commons, she is known for connecting cultural practice with technical systems to advance climate justice online.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Critical Social Thought, Bachelor's degree, Critical Social Thought at Mount Holyoke College