Michelle McCurdy is currently serving the diverse student body at San Diego City College as a nurse practitioner in their student health clinic where she has provided primary care and health education for the last six years. In addition to her passion for maintaining the physical and emotional health of her students, she is extremely concerned and dedicated to addressing injustice and inequality at its root. She was selected for Mid-City CAN’s Boards and Commissions Leadership Training program and completed it in the fall of 2019. She has worked as a volunteer for Jewish Family Services helping at their refugee shelter and provided medical care in Tijuana through Bridges to Healing International. She is also an active member of multiple local groups involved in critical causes such as Doctors for Camp Closure (D4CC) and Moms Demand Action (SD4GVP).
Her nursing career began when she joined the U.S. Navy after graduating with her bachelor’s in nursing from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. After earning her masters in nursing at the University of San Diego, Michelle served on the San Diego Chapter board of the California Association for Nurse Practitioners (CANP) as president-elect, president, and past president where she advocated for autonomous nurse practitioner (NP) practice legislation. Through her father’s work with a non-profit organization, Michelle was privileged to spend her childhood growing up in several countries, namely, the Philippines, India, Sierra Leone, and Ethiopia, with intermittent visits to Sabah, Malaysia where her mother was born and raised. She has been happily settled as a San Diego resident since 1997 where she and her husband are raising their three children and four cats.