Michael Braithwaite currently works as a writer for an education-reform organization in Providence, RI, and is currently working on a postapocalyptic travel log.

She was awarded CCA's Carmen M. Christensen Endowed Scholarship in 2008 and 2009.

She is the cofounder and coeditor of Ironing Board Collective, which examines culture through the lens of fashion, and has had her work published in the arts quarterly Plastic Antinomy, the Bay Citizen, the online magazine And, the arts quarterly At a Glimpse, The Rumpus, and SF Weekly's blog "The Exhibitionist," where she was a regular contributor.

Braithwaite co-curated and co-organized San Francisco's multidisciplinary arts event series "Go!", worked as a creative writing artist in residence at the Ruth Asawa San Francisco School of the Arts, and organized a lecture and performance series for the San Francisco Zen Center.

She volunteered for San Francisco's Streetside Stories (an organization dedicated to helping underserved youth tell their stories), Intersection for the Arts, and Boston's Floating Hospital for Children.

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