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Michelle Maldonado
Michelle is Founder and CEO of Lucenscia, a firm dedicated to human flourishing and mindful business transformation. She is an internationally certified mindfulness and emotional intelligence teacher and practitioner with the Search Inside Yourself Leadership Institute and the International Mindfulness Teachers Association, Genos International and GolemanEI, respectively. Michelle is a former corporate and tech attorney turned business leader who understands diverse industry sectors, mission, and service. She is passionate about learning, helping elevate human consciousness and alleviating suffering in the world. Her work focuses on personal and professional leadership development at the pivotal intersection of mindfulness, unconscious bias, emotional intelligence, authenticity, and compassion, nestled on a solid foundation of neuroscience and research and taught through an equity lens to help leaders do their inner work to create positive and sustainable outer impact. Michelle also serves as Senior Faculty for 1440 Multiversity's Leadership Center. Michelle is a graduate of Barnard College at Columbia University and The George Washington University School of Law. She also is the Democratic Nominee for the Virginia House of Delegates (District 50) running for state legislature. Michelle currently resides in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area with her family.