Michelle T. Shinseki has worked for the Hoover Institution and for William Morrow & Company as an Associate Editor, and currently works as a Producer and Editor of the online community WiseBear.com. Educated at the University of California at Berkeley and Stanford University, she has traveled throughout America and abroad as an educational researcher and substitute teacher in public and private schools, and in varying socio-economic and ethnic environments. Ms. Shinseki makes her home in New York City.