Fight For Children Board of Directors

Michelle Cross Fenty
Inter-American Development Bank

Michelle Fenty is General Operations Consultant at the Inter-American Development Bank working in the The Country Department Caribbean (CCB) and they are responsible for the promotion and development of Bank country strategies and programming in Bahamas, Barbados, Guyana, Haiti, Jamaica, Suriname, and Trinidad and Tobago.

Mrs. Fenty is a former attorney of Perkins Coie and the current First Lady of the District of Columbia. Her law practice emphasizes business counseling, commercial transactions, e-commerce and Internet, intellectual property, international business and licensing and technology business transactions. She previously served as managing director and associate general counsel at BearingPoint, Inc. (formerly KPMG Consulting Inc.) and corporate attorney for the National Retail Federation. Ms. Fenty received her B.S. from John Jay College of Criminal Justice, her J.D. from Howard University Law School and her LL.M. in international and comparative law from Georgetown University Law Center. Ms. Fenty is the President of the Advisory Board of Capital Breast Care Center. She lives with her husband, District of Columbia Mayor Adrian Fenty, and their three children.