MAY 4, 2021 SPOTLIGHT ON THE INTERSECTION OF BUSINESS AND PHILANTHROPY WITH COLLETTE MICHAUD CMOSC Join us on Tuesday, May 4 at 4:30 p.m. for the final event of our series "Spotlight on the Intersection of Business and Philanthropy. " Our featured speaker is Collette Michaud, Founder & CEO of Children's Museum of Sonoma County (CMOSC). Learn how she applied 15 years of experience in the software and entertainment industry to founding a nonprofit dedicated to serving our community. Collette worked in software design as a project leader, game designer, art manager and animator for more than 15 years. She was a key innovator and manager for LucasArts Entertainment Company and helped launch Lucas Learning in 1996, a children’s entertainment software company. During her tenure at Lucas Learning, Collette worked with teachers, scientists, and young children to create award-winning educational software products. In 2001, Collette left the software industry to raise her two sons, Russell and Ian. Having children opened her eyes to the need for hands-on experiential learning -- outside of the computer. In 2005, when her sons were four and six years old and with no funding, she founded the nonprofit, Children’s Museum of Sonoma County, out of the back of her Honda minivan. For the past sixteen years, the Children’s Museum has been a labor of love for her as she has gone from Founder to CEO. Creating an imaginative and interactive place where children and adults learn in the best way possible – through the power of play – is her passion. In 2016, CMOSC was voted “Best Place in the World for Children that is not a Playground” by the online Landscape Architecture network. For the past 22 years, she has lived in Petaluma with her husband Steve Purcell, two sons, and dog, Lucy.
MAY 4, 2021 SPOTLIGHT ON THE
INTERSECTION OF BUSINESS AND PHILANTHROPY
WITH COLLETTE MICHAUD CMOSC
Join us on Tuesday, May 4 at 4:30 p.m. for the final event of our series "Spotlight on the Intersection of Business and Philanthropy. "
Our featured speaker is Collette Michaud, Founder & CEO of Children's Museum of Sonoma County (CMOSC). Learn how she applied 15 years of experience in the software and entertainment industry to founding a nonprofit dedicated to serving our community.
Collette worked in software design as a project leader, game designer, art manager and animator for more than 15 years. She was a key innovator and manager for LucasArts Entertainment Company and helped launch Lucas Learning in 1996, a children’s entertainment software company. During her tenure at Lucas Learning, Collette worked with teachers, scientists, and young children to create award-winning educational software products.
In 2001, Collette left the software industry to raise her two sons, Russell and Ian. Having children opened her eyes to the need for hands-on experiential learning -- outside of the computer. In 2005, when her sons were four and six years old and with no funding, she founded the nonprofit, Children’s Museum of Sonoma County, out of the back of her Honda minivan. For the past sixteen years, the Children’s Museum has been a labor of love for her as she has gone from Founder to CEO. Creating an imaginative and interactive place where children and adults learn in the best way possible – through the power of play – is her passion.
In 2016, CMOSC was voted “Best Place in the World for Children that is not a Playground” by the online Landscape Architecture network. For the past 22 years, she has lived in Petaluma with her husband Steve Purcell, two sons, and dog, Lucy.