Michelle Dahl - Executive Director

Michelle Dahl is a civil rights attorney and nonprofit leader dedicated to community support and government accountability. She joins STOP as Executive Director after completing a Justice Catalyst Fellowship with the National Police Accountability Project, where she developed nationwide resources to support litigation against law enforcement misconduct in the criminal legal system.

Michelle earned her J.D., cum laude, from New York University School of Law, where she worked in the Civil Rights in the Criminal Legal System Clinic and the Global Justice Clinic and served as an editor for the Review of Law and Social Change. Before law school, she spent several years in nonprofit development and community engagement and is an AmeriCorps alum.

She holds a B.A., cum laude, in Government from Smith College and a Master of Arts in Public Leadership from United Lutheran Seminary in Philadelphia, where she graduated with honors by vote of the faculty. Her graduate work focused on the intersections of interfaith community organizing and social justice movements.