Michelle Sauer is an education and training specialist for the Fire Safety Research Institute (FSRI), part of UL Research Institutes. She graduated from the University of Maryland, College Park with a bachelor’s degree in secondary education and english. She has also earned graduate credits from Towson University in special education. Prior to FSRI, she worked as a middle school English teacher in Montgomery County Public Schools (MD) where she also acted as the planning team leader with her fellow grade-level English teachers. Michelle was born in Virginia, but as a military child, she lived all over the country and world before settling in Maryland.