Michelle Grinnell
Senior Vice President, Industry & Market Service
Phone:
517-763-6078
Email:
grinnellm@michigan.org
CURRENT FOCUS
Michelle Grinnell is Senior Vice President of Industry & Market Service and serves as a key liaison to stakeholder groups and state and local partners, while leading a team that promotes Michigan as a world-class destination for business and travel through media relations, marketing, digital media initiatives and special events.
PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND
Michelle has more than 15 years of experience in the public sector, managing communications initiatives across state government and in the U.S. House of Representatives. Michelle has also spent more than a decade helping to drive strategic communications initiatives for the MEDC, playing an instrumental role in the continued evolution of the Pure Michigan campaign, the expansion of statewide mobility initiatives and successful implementation of more than 20 COVID-19 relief programs led by the organization.
EDUCATION/PERSONAL
Michelle is a graduate of the University of Michigan and earned her master’s degree in media and public affairs from George Washington University in Washington, D.C.