Michelle Silbernagel Email & Phone Number

Kirkland, WA, US

Greater Seattle Area

Touchstone College Advising works with Magellan College Counseling.We provide one-on-one, personalized guidance to students and their families throughout the college admissions process. Our families get the added benefit of the collective expertise that comes from working with a dynamic, collaborative team of college counselors whose experiences spans.

Sammamish, WA

I guide students and their families through college admissions, providing information, resources, and insight to help them navigate the process with more clarity and less stress. My years of experience in writing, editing, research, facilitation and project management as well as my previous role as the Director of Research and Strategic Planning at Seattle.

Sammamish, WA

Fostered hyper-local community & local business engagement. Oversaw the content development for a monthly print magazine. Wrote creative content including feature and community spotlight stories, business highlights, community event features and educational and how-to articles. Solicited, secured and edited interesting features. Known for creating content.

Remote

Content editor for a popular podcast about neuroscience and brain optimization.Identified/researched podcast topics and guests, conducted all communications related to booking of guests. Provided ongoing scientific and social content research and curation. Wrote blog articles, scanned for and gathered content, performed audio editing, planned/managed the.

Sammamish, WA

• Designed, facilitated, analyzed and reported the data from over 20 focus groups for a large non-profit organization.
• Identified the common organizational expectations, targeted areas for continued growth, and developed strategies to meet shortfalls, resulting in a statistically significant growth in engagement as measured by the.

Greater Seattle Area

Conceptualized and carried out qualitative and quantitative issues-based research for the Seattle district, using benchmarking, informal focus groups, surveys, environmental scanning and statistical analysis.

Seattle, WA

• Select Experience:Management and execution of a $1 million budget, city-wide multi-media communications strategy to implement the new mandatory recycling program for a major metropolitan area.
• Resulted in a smooth and on-time transition to the new program. Received industry recognition for the success of the campaign and the program implementation.

Greater Seattle Area

Select Experience:The Vadose Zone Book Project for the U.S Department of Energy, Subsurface Contaminant Focus Area. Designed, planned and implemented a series of national scientific workshops as part of Department of Energy’s Vadose Zone Science book project. Results published in a two-volume text, the Vadose Zone Science and Technology Solutions.

Greater Seattle Area

Select Experience:Community Reinvestment Act Compliance in Lending to Low-income Census Tract Areas and Minorities. Study to identify reasons for a Nevada lending institution’s low lending performance in low-income census tract areas and to minorities. Conducted analysis of census data and proprietary lending databases combined with focus groups and.

Certificate, Independent Educational Consultant

Master’S Degree, Sociology

B.A, Spanish/Sociology (Double Major)