Michelle Evans-Chase

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Michelle Evans-Chase grew up in Willingboro, New Jersey and has been a competitive swimmer since the age of 6. She swam for Rutgers University and grew up around open water swimming with her father and her brother. She has done open water swims in Monterey Bay and San Francisco Bay in California, Ketchikan, Alaska and Folkestone, England.

She has coordinated or directed the swims and support for all of Bruckner Chase’s marathon swims and is a coach for the Ocean City Swim Club.

She wrote the grant for the American Samoan Toa o le Tai program.

Education

• PhD candidate at University of Pennsylvania in the School of Social Policy and Practice. Doctoral Program in Social Welfare. Dissertation Title: Mindfulness Mediation with Incarcerated Youth: A Randomized Controlled Trial Informed by Neuropsychosocial and Cultural Theories of Adolescence
  
• San Francisco State University - Master's in Psychology, 1999
  
• Rutgers University - Bachelor's in Psychology, 1989
  

External links

• Ocean City Swim Club