Shelley has a strong background and extensive skills in retail, business and vocational training and assessing. She has worked as a vocational trainer and assessor for many years, teaching retail, business, WHS, foundation skills and vocational pathways to students with complex backgrounds and barriers in language, literacy, and numeracy.

Moreover, Shelley has also been part-owner, with her husband and operated three small businesses – an online/markets business, a trade-based business and vendor business. She has lived her entire life in the Illawarra region and has a strong connection with the community and a love of the people and the area.

She joined Many Rivers in 2020 as the Microenterprise Development Manager and she caters to clients within the Illawarra and Shoalhaven region of South Coast, NSW.