Michele G. Smith

Michele is a member of the Board of Directors for the Dance Project, a multi-faceted non-profit organization located in the Cultural Arts Center in Greensboro.  The Dance Project's mission is to cultivate modern dance in North Carolina and to provide opportunities to children and adults for dance training, performance, collaboration and employment.  She serves on the organization's Board Development Committee.  Michele is a member of the Women’s Professional Forum (WPF) and former member of the Women’s Professional Forum Foundation Board.  She is a former President of WPF and co-chairs the organization’s very active Books and Arts Special Interest Group.  She has also served on the WPF 20^th Anniversary Committee and its 40^th Anniversary Committee, co-chaired the organization's 40^th Anniversary Special Event in October, 2017 and co-chaired the WPF History Committee.  In the past, she has served WPF as First Vice-President, Second Vice-President, Internal Vice-President and Director at Large.  She served on the Women's Professional Forum Foundation's Executive Board and Grants Committee for a number of years.

Michele is a member of Lillian’s List and a former member of that organization’s Executive Board.  She is a member of the North Carolina Democratic Party’s State Executive Committee and has served on that organization’s Council of Review for the 13th Congressional District.  She is a former member of the Democratic Women of North Carolina’s Executive Board, is a three-time Past President of Democratic Women of Guilford County (DWGC), and has actively worked as a volunteer for a number of political campaigns.  In 2012, she was honored as a DWGC STAR at the State Convention in Raleigh.  Michele regularly trains poll observers for the Guilford County Democratic Party and works as a member of the Democratic Party's Voter Protection Team on Election Day.

Michele's volunteer activities include work with the Family Life Council’s Parenting Under Two Roofs Program, the Guilford County Child Fatality Prevention Team Task Force, the Avon Walk for Breast Cancer and the Susan G. Komen 3-Day Walk for Breast Cancer.  She is a two-time breast cancer survivor who has raised more than $70,000.00 in the last eleven years to support medical research into possible causes of and a cure for breast cancer, education and early detection programs, and clinical care and support services for women (and men) with breast cancer in communities across the country.  In 2018, Michele was honored as an Exposing Hope breast cancer survivor by Earlier.org - Friends for an Earlier Breast Cancer Test.  In 2014, Business North Carolina Magazine recognized Michele in a special category called "Balancing Act," which recognized women in the legal industry who thrive through work and challenge, at the office as well as home.