Michelle Hsieh was born and raised in Orange County all her life. She graduated from the University of California, Riverside. After graduation she became a political intern in 2007 for the TACL summer internship program at Vice Chair, Board of Equalization member, Judy Chu's office in Monterey Park. Since then she has been the Professional Projects Chair for TAP-LA, and helped to found TAP-NY recently serving as it's Vice President. She previously worked for State Street Corporation in Irvine handling credit derivative settlements before moving to NY City to work at Credit Suisse. Aside from work and TAP, Michelle enjoys traveling, dining, ice skating, snowboarding, shopping, basketball, and wine tasting.