Miriam Michelle Robinson
Hometown:
McLean, Virginia
High School:
Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology
College:
Harvard University
Email:
mrobinson@post.harvard.edu
Michelle Robinson graduated from the highly competitive Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology in Alexandria, Virginia. She scored a perfect 1600 on the SATs, and her excellence in French earned her a scholarship to the Virginia Governor’s School French Immersion Academy. One of her high school teachers wrote, "Michelle is a risk-taker. She is imaginative, well-read, creative, dependable, a leader and mediator. She has strong opinions, but she is diplomatic."
Michelle attended Harvard University, and graduated magna cum laude from the department of English and American Language and Literature. Deeply committed to community service during her years at college, Michelle interned at the Washington, D.C. Rape Crisis Council and was a peer counselor for Contact, a hotline and drop-in counseling center for sexual orientation issues. She also worked as a tutor for middle school students through Project COPE (Count on Plenty Education) and volunteered with elementary students through HAND (House and Neighborhood Development). In Peace Games, another of her community service commitments, Michelle taught eighth-graders about conflict, stereotypes, and gender roles.
Michelle completed her masters at Harvard Divinity School in Spring 2004, and pursued high school teacher certification through the HDS Program in Religion and Secondary Education, a teacher training program designed to address the academic study of religion and religious issues in America's public schools. She also recently co-produced and facilitated an Anti-Racism Consciousness Workshop for ministers, counselors and teachers at the Divinity School. In Fall 2004 she will enter Boston University's American Studies department as a Ph.D. candidate.
