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Michelle earned a bachelor's degree in art history from the University of Texas at Austin in 1993. After returning to Kansas City, she worked in the financial industry as a stockbroker and operations manager until 2001. In that year, she began pursuing a graduate degree in art history and religious studies at the University of Missouri-Kansas City. Michelle was a UMKC graduate teaching fellow for non-western art history and co-authored Ren茅e Stout; Readers, Advisors and Storefront Churches (University of Washington Press).

Since 2012, Michelle has been an adjunct faculty member at various institutions, including the University of Central Missouri, Rockhurst University, and the Kansas City Art Institute. In 2020, she started teaching for a higher education in prison program at the Lansing Correctional Facility. This experience led to her current position as the Prison Education Program Director at USM.

Michelle was part of the 2022 National Cohort for the Alliance in Higher Education in Prison and was a speaker at the National Conference in Atlanta. She continues to speak at regional and national events to promote higher education in prison programs.

In the fall of 2023, Michelle began coursework through the USM Doctorate of Education Program in Innovative Leadership in Higher Education. Her research will investigate how intrinsic and extrinsic motivation impacts student retention rates in higher education prison programs.