Roundup Fellowship presents BEING MICHELLE

**Please note that seating for the movie and panel is currently sold out; however, we are pleased to offer waitlist admission, which allows you to attend the networking session with our community sponsors at 5:30. Additionally, you'll have the opportunity to bid on Michelle's artwork in our silent auction (ticket purchase required for participation). If any seats become available, we will offer them to waitlisted attendees. We appreciate your understanding and look forward to your participation.

Why Roundup?: Although Roundup Fellowship has been serving those with intellectual and developmental disabilities since 1973, very few people recognize the organization. The BEING MICHELLE event aims to bring awareness to the services they provide by telling Michelle’s extraordinary story, while also raising funds to increase programming, hire and retain highly qualified individuals, maintain operations, and purchase accessible vehicles, among other needs.

Mission: Roundup Fellowship creates educational and supportive opportunities that empower adults and children with neurodiversity and intellectual and developmental disabilities to thrive. Since 1973, Roundup Fellowship, a non-profit organization, has aimed to promote dignity in all relationships, while helping people with disabilities become as productive and independent as possible.

Film Synopsis: BEING MICHELE follows the astounding journey of a woman who is deaf, has autism, and survived incarceration under unimaginable circumstances in a system that refused to accommodate her needs. Michelle's trajectory changed when she met Kim Law, a blind volunteer life coach who teaches classes to people in prison. Today, outside of prison, Kim and Michelle are doing the difficult work of unraveling Michelle's history and telling the story of Michelle's traumatic childhood and her adverse experiences in the criminal justice system. With the support of Kim, Michelle realizes her own voice and strength. Throughout the film, Michelle's artwork provides her own depiciton of the trauma she survived, as well as a means to her recovery. Ultimately, BEING MICHELLE is a story of redemption. It is about the bonds between women committed to thriving in a broken system, who are forging a path to healing that can only come through facing the truth and communicating it together.