Michelle Rhone-Collins (she/her)

Board Member

Michelle’s career has been defined by standing up for equity and access for disenfranchised individuals and communities. As the CEO of LIFT, Michelle seeded many of the organization’s programmatic innovations, including the focus on an intergenerational approach to breaking the cycle of poverty, the integration of financial coaching into traditional supports, and giving cash directly to parents in recognition of their roles as CEOs of their families.

Michelle has become a nationally-recognized thought leader who has been featured in SSIR, Variety magazine, LA Magazine, NPR’s Marketplace, and the 2018 United State of Women Summit. She is a Senior Fellow at both the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs and the Brittingham Social EnterpriseLab at the USC Marshall School of Business, a Promise Venture Fellow, and part of the inaugural class of ProInspire’s Catalyst Collective of BIPOC nonprofit executives across the country.

Michelle resides in Los Angeles and is the proud mother of two beautiful children who are her ultimate source of motivation and inspiration. She loves them fiercely.