She graduated from Villa Julie College (Stevenson University) with her Bachelor’s Degree in Paralegal Studies. During her years at Villa Julie, she worked at small firm drafting deeds and estate planning documents and preparing materials for Medicaid applications. After graduation, Michele worked as a paralegal at an elder law firm in the Baltimore area, where she primarily assisted attorneys in the preparation and filing of applications for Medicaid Long-Term Care as well as large and small estate administration. Michele has a considerable amount of experience helping families in gathering and obtaining all of the information needed to apply and prepare a Medicaid application.