Michelle is Senior Director of Brand Marketing at PepsiCo, with deep experience in brand building, brand innovation, and marketing strategy on some of the world’s most loved brands, including Quaker, Cheetos, Pop Tarts, Rice Krispies Treats, Lipton, and Walgreens. She describes her job as “truly committing to understanding consumers, innovating and designing solutions for their lives, and reaching them in a way where they see themselves as the main character in the stories she tells through marketing”. She earned a BA in Marketing from Howard University and an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University. Michelle lives in Chicago, IL, with her husband and young son.