Shelle Michaels is a creative, passionate 40-year old woman with a gypsy soul, who claims that her life as the mother of three beautiful daughters is one of the most powerful roles in the world. She is a graduate student and teaches Women Studies at the University of North Dakota. Shelle also has a freelance public relations firm (Midnight Sun PR) and runs her newly founded non-profit organization—the DIVAs, which stands for making a Difference Initiated through Various Arts. Her favorite description that others affectionately call her is, "pit bull," as she gets in there and gets the job done.