Michelle Todd is a Cork-based community organiser, mature student, and non-formal educator with over 15 years’ experience across a wide range of sectors and communities. She is completing her final year (first-class honours to date) of a BSc in International Development at UCC.
A mix of varied life experience, dyslexic thinking, and formative influences from Terry Pratchett to Rage Against the Machine have shaped a warm, generalist perspective, weaving together regenerative practice, circular economy, human rights, and community education into initiatives that meet people where they are. Having come to community action before formal education, her work finds the gaps between silos; connecting community arts, zero waste, democratic education, and anti-bias work into lived, local practice.
She has been recognised in the Cork University Business School Leaders of Tomorrow awards (Teaching & Learning and Global Citizenship) and received the 2026 Quercus Top Mature Student III Award, and recently joined the committee of the Roger Casement Summer School in Dún Laoghaire.
Her SDG action project reframes food banks and pantries, recognising the quiet dignity and solidarity already practised by users as active participation in circular economy and SDG goals.
A devout Pastafarian, she still tries to observe the Condiments. Yaaarrrr.