Meet Michele

Michele grew up in her family’s flower and greenhouse business in Oneonta - one of the largest geranium growers in the state. A former Oneonta City Council member, Michele now lives in Delhi where she is an Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice at SUNY Delhi. She lives with her spouse and three sons, two of whom are neurodivergent. Michele is also a Real Estate Agent for a locally owned real estate company. It was in this family business surrounded by acres of flowers, where Michele learned from an early age that everyone deserves to grow in their gardens and flourish. Today, as a boomerang New Yorker, that means Michele is ready to fight for rural New Yorkers when it comes to planting their roots, growing their families and tending to their communities.