Michelle Zygmont

Full Bio

Michelle comes from a small town in the heart of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. After high school, Michelle attended Eastern University where she graduated with a degree in Youth Ministry and minors in Business Administration and Psychology. 

Life has been an adventure. Moving from Pennsylvania to San Diego to New York City to Montreal to Pennsylvania back to San Diego has built resilience and adaptability. Since the last move back to San Diego, Michelle spent the better part of a decade working at a local hedge fund as the Director of Financial Operations for one of the fund’s investment portfolios.

In 2017, Michelle and her family made a life changing decision to move to Nepal to start a social enterprise. During this time, Michelle was an integral part of building a shoe manufacturing company in Nepal as well as co-founding the US brand - Jivanas. 

Now living back in California, Michelle continues to volunteer her time with Souls. Michelle is continuing to manage the company that was started in Nepal as well as leading the charge with growing Jivanas.