Michelle is the Technical Director of the Natural Assets Initiative. Her work focuses primarily on the management of natural assets using various tools of GIS & mapping, ecological economics, policy analysis, and public outreach. She is the author of several natural asset management reports, a past President of the Canadian Society for Ecological Economics and has taught Ecological Economics at the British Columbia Institute of Technology. Michelle has an M.A. in Public Policy from Simon Fraser University, an M.A. in Philosophy from the University of Western Ontario and an H.B.A. in Economics from the University of Western Ontario. Her talk will address the question of how to mainstream nature-based solutions.