Hello, I’m Michelle
Reporter by training. Collector by instinct. Storyteller always.
I spent more than three decades asking questions on television. These days, I’m still asking—just with a wider canvas and more freedom to follow what delights me.
At a glance
- 35 years in Duluth television news
- Minnesota Broadcasters Hall of Fame
- Upper Midwest NATAS Silver Circle
- Author and Nemadji pottery historian
- Creator of Moose Lake Minute
- On-camera talent represented by Wehmann
A life built around listening.
My broadcasting career began in radio in 1977 and moved to Duluth television in 1983. As a reporter and anchor, I covered the stories that shape northern Minnesota and helped lead community efforts around heart health, Russian orphanages and a new animal shelter.
Along the way, a love of collecting became a serious research project. I interviewed people who made Nemadji pottery in Moose Lake and Kettle River, gathered photographs and records, and wrote The Myth and Magic of Nemadji “Indian” Pottery.
Today, from my home near Moose Lake, I’m making local-history videos, sharing honest thoughts about aging and reinvention, gardening, writing—and occasionally stepping in front of a different kind of camera.
“I’m not finished. I’m simply in a new chapter—and it may be the most interesting one yet.”