Michelle Bangen

Michelle Bangen, MPH, CHES, Project Development Specialist for Soteria Solutions, is a violence prevention and health promotion specialist with more than 12 years of experience developing innovative approaches to sexual violence prevention and health promotion. She has developed award-winning and nationally recognized prevention programs and has participated in and lead research projects evaluating the efficacy of bystander intervention programs and social marketing campaigns, exploring sexual consent attitudes among university students, and assessing campus climate.

Michelle has held leadership roles in national, state, and regional professional organizations. She is currently serving as Research Co-Chair for the Campus Advocates and Prevention Professionals Association (CAPPA) and is a past chair of the American College Health Association (ACHA) Health Promotion Section. She is also the co-founder of the Incite Agency for Change, a social enterprise and public health consulting agency inspiring hope, encouraging individual and collective action, and creating change for healthy communities. Michelle received her MPH in Health Behavior and Health Promotion from The Ohio State University. Her work is routed in public health, feminist, and anti-oppression frameworks and her life-long endeavor is building healthy, socially just communities where all people can thrive.