Michelle is a freelance music, lifestyle and fashion writer from Brooklyn. Active in NYC’s global music scene, she has organized events and booked bands at the infamous Mehanata Bulgarian Bar since 2009, including an after party for Peruvian chicha-revival group Bareto and Chile’s Chico Trujillo. Her cumbia obsession led her to Peru in 2013, where she bought up a suitcase full of fabric and put on an “electro-cholita” runway show for a charity organization upon returning to NYC.