Michele Kessler
Board Member
Michelle Kessler is the co-founder and director of the Kessler Family Foundation. She is a member of the Women's Health Leadership Forum at Brigham and Women's Hospital and member of the President's Advisory Board. She is a trustee of the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and the Miami Cancer Institute. She was co-founder of the Massachusetts General Hospital's Leadership Council for Psychiatry.
Michelle serves on numerous boards of directors including: the United Way of the Town of Palm Beach, the American Ireland Fund, the Preservation Foundation of Palm Beach, the Palm Beach Civic Association, the Palm Beach Police Foundation, the Ayenda Foundation, the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, and the Palm Beach Zoo as chairman of the board.
Michelle was awarded the Distinguished Citizen Award by United Way in 2017. She also received the Ellis Island Medal of Honor in 2013. She was honored in 2009 by Massachusetts General Hospital with the Leadership Award by the chief of psychiatry and with the 2009 American Red Cross International Leadership Award. In 2007, she received the Women of Distinction Award by Palm Beach Atlantic University.
