Michele Murphy is proud to be a native Tucsonan, Salpointe Lancer and Arizona Wildcat. She has spent time living in San Francisco Bay Area, Washington, D.C., and Alexandria, Egypt, but family, community and the Catalinas keep bringing her back to the Old Pueblo. Michele currently serves as a development officer for the UA College of Humanities where she enjoys advocating for students, faculty and programs. Prior to joining the COH team 2 ½ years ago Michele spent 4 years as Executive Director for the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation of Southern Arizona and 17 years as a high school humanities and social studies teacher, student activities director, and girl’s golf coach; all but one of those years at Salpointe. In addition to Rotary Michele is a member of Association of Fundraising Professionals and is a member of the Board of Directors for the Arizona State 4-H Youth Foundation. She loves to read, travel, hike, practice yoga and spend time with family, especially her niece, Hailey, and nephews Hunter and Hayden. However, most of Michele’s time these days is spent trying to train her 17 month old chocolate Australian Labradoodle, Malley! One day she hopes he will serve others as a therapy dog, but for now he is definitely not ready for primetime! Please say hello to Michele and welcome her to the club!
