Michelle is responsible for building and maintaining AFT's websites, emails, and digital communications calendar. She plays a key role in raising AFT's profile through initiatives like America's Farmers Market Celebration, aiming to secure and steward digital supporters while ensuring clear and consistent brand messages and visuals across multiple digital channels.

With a digital marketing and communications background, Michelle has experience in publishing, event planning, and non-profit organizations. Coming from a third-generation family dairy farm in rural Wisconsin, she naturally developed a passion for food, winemaking, and planting a vineyard of French-American cold-climate grape varietals. Michelle enjoys exploring quaint towns and rolling hills in wine country, hiking in the mountains, and immersing herself in local culture, farmers markets, viticulture, and cuisine.