PALO ALTO, CA, December 08, 2025 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Marquis Who's Who, the world's premier publisher of biographical profiles, is proud to honor Michelle Abrahamson Robell with inclusion in Who's Who in the World. An accomplished listee, Mrs. Robell celebrates many years' experience in her professional network and has been noted for achievements, leadership qualities, and the credentials and successes she has accrued in her field. As in all Marquis Who's Who biographical volumes, individuals profiled are selected on the basis of current reference value. Factors such as position, noteworthy accomplishments, visibility, and prominence in a field are all taken into account during the selection process.

Ms. Robell has dedicated over 25 years to the field of education, with a distinguished tenure as a first-grade teacher at Walter Hays Elementary School within the Palo Alto Unified School District in Palo Alto, California, since 2000. Her greatest joy is teaching students how to read and inspiring a growth mindset. As a quiet, somewhat shy, yet courageous introvert herself, she makes sure every student is seen and cared for through a morning meeting and greeting. She has recently discovered how improv games help students overcome shyness and build confidence. Her leadership has extended beyond the classroom as she serves as a teacher leader by contributing to multiple curriculum committees almost every year since she started teaching and presenting at some professional development sessions.

Before joining Walter Hays Elementary School, Ms. Robell taught in the Mountain View Whisman School District from 1998 to 2000 as a fourth-grade teacher and gifted and talented specialist at Monta Loma Elementary School. The Monta Loma site council presented her the first Monta Loma Spirit Award.

Ms. Robell's journey before teaching began at Kent State University, where she earned a bachelor's degree in psychology summa cum laude. She went on to the University of New Haven, earning a master's degree in industrial and organizational psychology. Ms. Robell then drove from New York City to California without a job or connections to start her corporate career journey. Her first position as a compensation analyst with Xerox Engineering Systems led to an executive compensation consulting position with the global management consulting firm Hewitt Associates, later known as Hewitt Aon. After many years consulting and becoming a lightbulb leader for executive perquisites, Ms. Robell decided to follow her purpose to teach elementary school. She earned her teaching credential from the Benard School of Education at the University of the Pacific. She is grateful for all the corporate experiences and consulting skills she learned and continues to apply inside and outside the classroom today. She is grateful for and inspired by all the professors, managers, principals, teachers, classroom parents, and the students themselves.

Simultaneously with being a 1st grade teacher and being a single mom, she volunteered at the Stanford Hospital Emergency Department from 2008 to 2020, providing comfort visits to patients and families. She also trained new volunteers during this time. She did this all without others knowing or sharing it in any public way. It was her way to initiate and show human compassion in her own quiet, introverted way. In light of her volunteerism and selfless conduct, Ms. Robell was inducted in 2024 as a Distinguished Humanitarian by Marquis Who's Who.

In 2024 Ms. Robell also earned a prominent cover placement in Millennium Magazine's Fourteenth Edition. Ms. Robell was also featured in the December 2023/January 2024 Issue of Forbes Magazine.

Ms. Robell's life long motto of "Purpose, Meaning, and Peace" that propelled her into teaching continues today to drive and build her retirement goals. Looking ahead to retirement in a few years, Ms. Robell hopes to mentor new teachers no matter where she moves to and build a growing volunteer role at a children's hospital she is currently volunteering at. Her life as a first grade teacher inspired her to start taking multiple improv comedy and theatre workshops to grow a post-retirement goal to perform improv, even as a quiet introvert.

Ms. Robell is grateful for her entire life long journey, starting with multiple early life difficult circumstances, which built the engine of courage and resilience, and propelled purpose, meaning, compassion, and peace within herself and with others while listening mostly rather than talking. To her, success is a continuum and combination of qualitative and internal milestones as well as quantitative subjective measures that do not define a person. Success is not a title, or position, or a checklist of things completed, but rather the inspiration, the deeper impact, beyond what is seen, beyond one's presence - in her own words.

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