Mary Lou Michael is President of Mary Lou Michael and Associates, Inc., an organizational consulting firm she founded in 1986. She holds a B.A. in Psychology from Smith College (1968), an Ed.M. in Organization Behavior from Harvard University (1980), and an M.A. and a Ph.D. in Human and Organization Development from Fielding Graduate University (1994, 1996). Mary Lou has served on many non-profit boards over the past 25 years including the Greater Portland United Way, Southern Maine Family Planning Agency, Center for Cultural Exchange, the Angela Y. Davis Institute for Social Justice, River Rock Foundation, and most recently the National Council on Aging's Leadership Council. She is a volunteer with Hospice of Southern Maine and an active grandmother. In joining HGHW, Mary Lou returns to an earlier professional life and interest in girls' development. In 1976, she was awarded a Women's Educational Equity Act grant for developing a model sex-equity career education program in the Waterville Junior High School.