Michele White is an award-winning journalist. She has worked as a reporter for FOX23 in Tulsa, KWWL in Cedar Rapids, for both FOX/ABC Alaska as the Matanuska-Susitna Valley reporter and KTUU as the Valley Bureau Chief. She began her TV reporting career as a reporter for KOMU in Columbia, Missouri, covering the Missouri legislature during the session and consumer stories for the 8 On Your Side segment.  Michele has two decades of experience writing for newspapers and magazines, including the Castro Valley Forum (San Francisco Bay Area), Alaska Contractor, Alaska Star, Alaska Business Monthly, Alaska Dispatch and Last Frontier magazine.  Her story, Climbing Denali in January, published in Last Frontier magazine, won a 2016 Alaska Press Club award for Best Outdoors Story, All Media. She currently writes under the pseudonym Mikaela LeBlanc for Tulsa Kids magazine.

Michele earned her Bachelor of Journalism degree from the Missouri School of Journalism. Some of Michele’s career highlights include earning the exclusive interview with the governor of Alaska during the litigation of a petition to recall him – which went all the way to the Alaska Supreme Court; working on a sex trafficking investigation that aired as an hour-long newscast special and investigating a mayoral candidate in Cedar Rapids who didn’t pay her taxes for three years and incurred judgments and liens spanning 10 years in three states. The local newspaper credited Michele’s reporting of the story.

Fluent in French, Michele interviewed a member of the French National Assembly, who helped author the controversial About-Picard law that threatened religious freedom in France. Michele wrote about the bill for WORLD magazine as it swiftly passed the National Assembly and received international criticism.