Goucher College

So she was really out there for 1896.

Now, she was also a very accomplished professor from Goucher University, Bucknell University, went on to, I believe... somewhere in Baltimore and later in Miami.

So this was no slouch.

This was an accomplished person.

So talk about your housing journey and then how you became a councilmember.

I've been in Baltimore for 35 years now, including my college time at Goucher College.

Worked for Delegate McIntosh and Delegate Rosenberg, and then also for Senator Mikulski.

And then after that stint, went into the nonprofit community development world.

And so I became very interested in all of this and devouring this content, devouring Gloria Steinem's books, devouring bell hooks.

I think I went to my first bell hooks talk when I was 14 or 15 in boarding school, Goucher College.

And then of course the '90s was such a great time to grow up as you're coming into these interests because I had my life and to watch Claire Danes.

I had '90s music.

And I should also say previously, I was homeschooled, and so I started taking some community college classes when I was 16, which allowed me to transfer into whatever school I decided to go to after that.

And God made it very clear where I should go as I applied to Goucher and I applied to Towson University.

And I had applied to Goucher's, uh, they had some sort of scholarship audition, I think, and I had received some type of response saying, you know, "Thank you for signing up, but, uh, transfers can't attend this audition," or something like that.

It was something along those lines.

Again, this was a long time ago.

So the Baltimore Rock Opera Society was founded in 2007 by a group of edgy theater dudes.

Most of them were Goucher grads.

And the name BROs actually makes sense.

What's Goucher?

It's a school in Baltimore.

Okay.

you know another local legend prominence in a couple well it's been a little bit but a minute ago and so it's it's really an honor that was up before

after the goucher show It was after.

I met y'all at the Goucher show, then he did this and told me how great it was.

That was such a good show.

okay so maybe it was that cat

no it's wild like

yeah jen is one of our best friends and i've only met dave like i think and maybe once or twice prior to goucher oh wow and i've known jen since right jen marcus oh wow right yeah it's our best yeah one of our best

she's awesome great family

Michelle's path through college wasn't especially linear.

She attended Goucher College and American University before eventually transferring to UVM, and along the way, she seemed to keep refining what she wanted from her education.

At Goucher, she played on the women's soccer team and earned a place on the Capital Athletic Conference's All-Academic team.

Outside of school, she hiked and skied, loved photography, and sang in choir.

And I was like, "You're a gouger".

Goucher party weekend.

Yeah.

And he goes, "Everybody kept asking me if I was drunk," and he was like, "I've been stone cold sober for 16 years and one day." [laughs]

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Gouchers at the '80s show.

Gouchers at homecoming.