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Michele Wright, Ph.D. is the Co-Founder and Board Chair of the National Organization of African Americans with Cystic Fibrosis (NOAACF), a 501(c)(3) organization with a mission to engage, educate, and raise cystic fibrosis (CF) awareness in the African American community and to help bring valuable resources, tools, knowledge, empowerment, and support to CF patients, families, healthcare professionals, and the community through its national platform and focus on health equity for Blacks, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC).

Dr. Wright is the 2022 USA TODAY Woman of the Year for Arkansas and a 2022-2023 AARP Purpose Prize Fellow in recognition of her global impact and nationally recognized contributions to diversity, inclusion, and health equity. In 2022, she and her husband, NOAACF Co-Founder Terry Wright, also made history as the first persons of color to receive the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation (CFF) Arkansas Chapter’s annual “Breath of Life Award”, CFF’s Highest Award bestowed.

She is the writer, director, and executive producer of the 2022 Black Reels Awards “Outstanding Short” nominated film, 54 YEARS LATE. She is the recipient of the Nations of Women Change Makers 2021 Global Leadership Award and a nominee of the EveryLife Foundation of Rare Diseases’ RareVoice 2021 Award for Diversity Empowerment.