Michelle Pledger is a 9th grade World Cultures, Geography, and Literature teacher at High Tech High North County in San Marcos, California and a School Transformation Coach. Her 2014 speaking engagements include the USC Shoah Foundation’s 20th Anniversary Gala honoring President Barack Obama, TEDx Hollywood, and the Past is Present 70th commemoration of the liberation of Auschwitz. Michelle seeks to enhance her leadership and social justice facilitation as a candidate in the Joint Doctoral Program in Educational Leadership at the University of California, San Diego and California State University, San Marcos.