Michelle Shevin
Senior Program Manager, Technology and Society
Michelle Shevin is the senior program manager of Ford’s Public Interest Technology Catalyst Fund. She’s a technologist and researcher passionate about how technology, policy, and culture intersect to shape social change.
At Ford, she brings a systems thinking approach and a deep commitment to human-centered technology to ensure advances do not undermine justice. In this role, she manages the $50 million Public Interest Technology Catalyst Fund, a landmark investment in building cross-sector infrastructure to prioritize people in technology change.
Michelle uses her strong interest in fostering collaboration and knowledge sharing to drive impact. She has served as program officer to dozens of visionary grantees and represents Ford at funder tables, including co-founding the Public Interest Technology Infrastructure Fund, enabling cross-funder coordination. She is also a founding partner of the National Science Foundation’s Responsible Design, Development, and Deployment of Technologies (ReDDDoT) program, which supports multidisciplinary and cross-sector teams to foreground impacted communities and ethical approaches in their work with and around technology.
Before joining Ford, Michelle lent strategic foresight to organizations across sectors, including helping the U.S. Navy navigate the energy transition and managing open innovation programs as a strategy consultant at Luminary Labs.
She holds an MA in Security Studies from the Naval Postgraduate School and a BA in Anthropology: Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology from Barnard College, Columbia University.
