Michelle works across TechTown teams to ensure events are executed with keen attention to detail, and plays a key role in TechTown’s annual fundraiser, Toast of the Town. She works with local, state, national and international customers, planning their events at TechTown and Wayne State University’s Industry Innovation Center with creativity and efficiency—from board retreats to multi-day conferences and livestreamed pitch competitions, to networking receptions for hundreds of guests. Michelle has been part of Detroit’s event community for over 15 years, the past 7-1/2 with TechTown, creating space for connection through hospitality. When not party-planning, Michelle can be seen walking her pit-mix pup, Wyatt, in the Cass Corridor neighborhood she’s called home for 12 years, baking her way through cookbooks and generally being crafty.