Michelle Glass is an artist working in Public Art + Social Practice and creates community engaged art in Central and Southern California. She holds a BA in Art Education/Single Subject Teaching Credential with an emphasis in Art Studio Photography from the California State University, Los Angeles and a MFA in Public Practice from Otis College of Art & Design. She creates art that considers the geographic and social/historic attributes of a site, acknowledges the contributions and histories of diverse groups, amplifies the voices of the people, and provides an opportunity for collective actions. Her work is site, engagement, and community based and is deeply rooted in her personal history. She is a third generation Chicana and comes from a legacy of land stewards. As a young child, she moved from urban, East Los Angeles to the rural, agricultural town of Moorpark, CA where everyone knew their neighbors and generations of families nurtured the land. Throughout the years, relatives shared stories about their lives living on a ranch or in wooden farmworker carriages as they followed the crops. This was a time when people realized that all life is interconnected and interdependent. Growing up within these two perspectives, she witnessed firsthand the contradictions between the wealth and poverty of communities and inequities around race, bureaucracy, language barriers, and culture. This experience prompted her to use art as a tool to bring disparate groups together in an effort to build equity and social justice. Her methodology embraces research, arts education, community building, and community engagement.