Michelle Regalado Deatrick, the Michigan-based founder and Chair of the Democratic National Committee’s first-ever Environment and Climate Crisis Council, is a longtime labor and environmental leader, farmer, and battleground state organizer. Vice President of the Huron Valley Area Labor Federation, AFL-CIO, she is the recent former Vice Chair of the Washtenaw County Commission where she beat a three-term Republican to win her rural seat. Michelle founded her county’s first Environmental Council and serves on many nonprofit boards and advisory councils, including: Jane Fonda Climate PAC, OnePointFive Climate Strategy Group, Climate Power, the Ecology Center, and the Huron Valley Workers Organizing Center.