Community Grand Marshal Michele Cirone-Collier


Michele Cirone-Collier has worked with the Greater Palm Springs Pride Board for many years in her capacity as City of Palm Springs Special Events Coordinator/Military Liaison, and has personally helped coordinate the operations for the parade and festival. She has been involved personally with the parade’s growth from a small street parade near DeMuth Park to moving to downtown Palm Springs on Palm Canyon Drive and becoming one of the largest parades that is hosted in Palm Springs.


Michele recently retired from her post with the City of Palm Springs. During her 21 years of service to the community, she coordinated operations for all parades and events (city sponsored and non-city sponsored) held on public property in the City of Palm Springs. From car races to craft shows, from the parade of planes, to the Palm Springs Pride Parade, she was intrinsically involved in the coordination of all city services and related public agencies participating in the events. She was the lead coordinator for the City of Palm Springs Veterans Day Parade and also served on the coordinating committee for the one year anniversary of the 9/11 tragedy that hit our nation. She is particularly proud of coordinating the annual Holiday Concert and helped the event grow from attracting approximately 900 people at the high school to over 3,000 at the Convention Center.


Prior to her service with the City of Palm Springs, Michele was with Loyola Marymount University coordinating commencements and facilities scheduling. She was also a high school teacher in the Los Angeles area.


A native of Brooklyn, New York, her family relocated to California in 1978 where she joined them after completing college in Tucson. She moved to the Coachella Valley almost 22 years ago and loves the desert. She has a wonderful husband, Jeff , two nieces and nephews, two step-children, and two grand-children. She is a culinary afi cionado and enjoys cooking for others. In her newly retired mode she hopes to cook privately for those who no longer can or want to cook for themselves.


Speaking of her long relationship with Pride, she said: “The festival is top notch and its high caliber and quality is due to the tremendous hard work of the Pride Board. The Palm Springs Pride Board has created such an outstanding quality event, by which other events in the valley now have to set their benchmarks quite high to be comparable.” Greater Palm Springs Pride is pleased to honor Michele Cirone-Collier as Community Grand Marshal in recognition of her long service to our community and enriching our lives.


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