Michelle Anderson

Michelle Anderson began her journey in the Public Health & Safety field in 1985 as a Home Health Care Manager for Alpha Medical Center in New York. She managed more than 250 caseloads helping families and worked there for ten years. In 1995 the Medical Center closed due to lack of funding and she began temping at The National Road Safety Foundation, which was then called the Manocherian Foundation. She fell in love with its mission and became heavily involved with the issues using her coordinating skills and was soon hired her full-time. Michelle is currently the Director of Operations at The National Road Safety Foundation, where she oversees development of programs that help further instruct adults and empower teens on traffic safety concerns. Michelle also manages the production, administration and distribution of thousands of its free programs on an annual basis. She organizes the foundation’s strategic goals, which include working collaboratively with safety partners such as the Governors Highway Safety Association, the American Driver Traffic Safety Education Association, the National Association of School Resource Officers, and youthbased organizations like SADD (Students Against Destructive Decisions) and FCCLA (Family, Career and Community Leaders of America). Michelle does not consider what she does as a “job,” but rather a calling to save lives and raise awareness for safer driving and uniformed driver education standards, accompanied with greater Graduated Driver Licensing laws across the country. She believes in promoting driver competence through lifelong education, which is the mission of the foundation and travels to conduct workshops and build strategic partnerships with groups that share the same mission. Michelle’s other passion is to the young people at her church in Brooklyn, NY, where she teaches and mentors through community outreach and fellowship programs.