Michelle has been leading the Sustainable Farms project at The Australian National University since 2018. Michelle is highly skilled at conducting research and evaluation with a range of stakeholder audiences, including organisational leaders, service providers and industry groups. She has worked for more than 20 years both in government and as a consultant to government, across both the Australian Public Service including New South Wales Health, the Bureau of Rural Sciences, the Department of Families and Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs, and the Murray Darling Basin. Michelle has a Master of Philosophy from the National Centre for Epidemiology and Public Health (ANU) and a Masters of Sociology (Auckland).