A native of Fort Wayne, Michelle Chambers is a business owner, community leader and urban fellow who holds a Master’s Degree in Public Administration. Her public service career spans two decades, working with various cities and overseeing programs that assist underserved communities and at-risk youth and their families, and direct oversight of community, economic and redevelopment programming for commercial, housing and job growth development.
Michelle’s unwavering commitment to the greater Fort Wayne community led to her run for a City Council At-Large seat in 2015. Although she did not win a seat at the council table, she was the top vote getter in the Primary and General Election among her Democratic peers. Michelle later created history by being voted in by caucus as Fort Wayne’s first African American City Clerk in 2016. That same year, she was elected to represent the Indiana’s 3rd Congressional District as the Democratic National Committee Convention Delegate.
Michelle is a Rotarian that holds the distinction of being a Paul Harris Fellow, who created rotary history by being selected as the first President of the recently-chartered Summit City South Rotary Club. Her community involvement as includes serving on the Fort Wayne Metropolitan Human Relations Commission as a mayor-appointed commissioner, she is the president of the Fort Wayne Chapter Links, Inc., and advisory board member of Fort Wayne Girlz Rock, Timothy L. Johnson Charter School and Whittington Home Services.