As a practicing attorney she represented private and public sector clients, gaining extensive experience with administrative agencies in their regulatory and enforcement functions. For 15 years, Michele maintained an environmental mediation practice in which she designed and facilitated consensus-building processes for a wide variety of government, corporate, and nonprofit clients. She also directed Salt Lake Solutions, Salt Lake City Former Mayor Becker’s collaborative government initiative. Michele designed and taught conflict management courses as an adjunct and lecturer professor at the S.J. Quinney College of Law and Masters of Public Administration program. Ms. Straube joined the Stegner Center as Director of the EDR Program in February 2012, and retired in August 2017.