Founder and Director of SomaSource Educational Programs, Golden Girls Global, and Golden Bridge

Founder and Director of SomaSource Educational Programs, Golden Girls Global, and Golden Bridge

Melissa Michaels, Ed.D., is the Founder and Director of SomaSource Educational Programs, Golden Girls Global, and Golden Bridge. These not-for-profit organizations are dedicated to uplifting the lives of people through dance-based rites of passage journeys, mentoring, and social entrepreneurship. She authored the book, Youth on Fire: Birthing a Generation of Embodied Global Leaders.

Melissa’s work reaches across borders, building bridges between richly diverse emerging leaders from around the world. From favelas to college campuses, refugee settlements to the United Nations, Melissa’s moving ways of leading offer somatic and soulful pathways to individuals and communities navigating their way through trauma into dynamic wellbeing. She is devoted to our collective sustainability through the liberation of the creative spirit.

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