Michelle is a Design Advocate at zeroheight, where she serves the design community through knowledge sharing, building bridges, and identifying community needs. She has worn several hats from product designer to design manager to design ops manager. Her experience includes starting up design systems from scratch and then scaling them across a 30+ product portfolio for an enterprise company. She’s also cohosts the UX In Real Life podcast that examines what UX is really like at work and in the world around us. She runs a meetup for Bay Area design system makers called Hella Design Systems. Michelle is also an environmental justice advocate and works to provide tree equity in Oakland, California.