Michelle Thorne (born 1985) is an American-born, Berlin, Germany-based internet culture and climate justice activist who is known for leading community initiatives at Mozilla and before then with Creative Commons.

She is the Director of Strategy and Partnerships at the Green Web Foundation an organization focused on climate justice related to the Internet.

She holds a BA summa cum laude in Critical Social Thought and German Studies from Mount Holyoke College, USA, where she wrote an honors thesis on authorship, originality, and American copyright law.

She worked as the international project manager for Creative Commons from 2007 to 2011[4] and joined the Mozilla Foundation as Global Event Strategist in 2011.

[10] In 2020, she founded the online magazine Branch to convene people and ideas on how to make the internet itself more sustainable for the planet.