Michelle DePass leads Marin Community Foundation’s newest team, Marin 24x7, which represents the organization’s commitment to be more proximate to the communities it serves.

From 2013 to 2018, Michelle served as a Dean at The New School and Director of the Tishman Environment and Design Center, which she re-launched in 2015, reinvigorating The New School’s commitment to sustainability rooted in social justice and community collaboration. Michelle is the current Chair of the Tishman Environment and Design Center’s Advisory Committee.

Throughout her career, Michelle has been a champion of social, economic, and environmental justice for people of color, women, indigenous peoples, and low-income communities, as she served as a civil rights lawyer, an Assistant Administrator of the United States Environmental Protection Agency in the Obama Administration, a program officer at the Ford Foundation, and the founding Executive Director of the New York City Environmental Justice Alliance.