Her prestigious Las Vegas career PR campaign successes are endless, including Elvis Presley Enterprises first-ever Official Auction from Archives of Graceland with Guernsey’s of New York, International Spokesperson for Barbra Streisand’s Millennium New Year’s Eve Concert, master plan reinvention of MGM Grand as The City of Entertainment, launch of luxury suites The Mansion at MGM Grand, 16,000 seat Grand Garden Arena for dozens of concerts/sporting events, renowned restaurants and celebrity chefs Charlie Trotter, Emeril Lagasse, Wolfgang Puck and Michael Mina, and A-lister John Travolta’s red carpet movie premiere and after party at Studio 54.

Known in the Entertainment Capital of the World as the PR Maven, in 2005 she took her Las Vegas inspired entrepreneurial spirit and launched her own PR company and LLC working with clients James Beard Award-Winning Chef Michael Mina and his team to launch Bourbon Steak at the Fairmont Scottsdale AZ, C Level luxury boutique at Boca Park and Spring Mountain Motor Resort & Country Club for international auto aficionados. 

In 2012 she was hired to launch a PR campaign by the late real estate and agriculture entrepreneur Maurice Wilder in the Sunshine State, Tampa Bay, FL and managed his 100,000 square foot Knights Point real estate complex on Harbour Island during a National Political Convention booking national media:  Bloomberg Media, the Charlie Rose Show, The Today Show, Good Morning America and NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams.  

She is an avid traveler and in 2018 toured nine provinces in China for 21 days with her client renowned American pianist Philip Fortenberry for his Salute To Broadway Tour, worked in Paris, France for the launch of the original Crazy Horse Paris production show La Femme at MGM Grand, visited the Blue Zone of Costa Rica, hiked the Hawai’i Volcanoes National Park and snorkeled the Great Blue Hole off the coast of Belize.

Shelley is active as a volunteer in her community and currently serves since 2020 on the Board of Directors for nonprofit The Indian Riverkeeper a member of the global Waterkeeper Alliance.  She supports numerous other charitable organizations and causes, including The Composers Showcase of Las Vegas, Young Artists Orchestra of Las Vegas, St. Baldrick’s Foundation to help find cures for children’s cancer, Unshakeable that empowers women in Nevada, YMCA Treasure Coast FL Summer Youth Camp Program, Operation 300 of Stuart, FL where she runs the annual 5k or 10k race.  In 2025 she ran for her third time the 5k race to support the Treasure Coast Rowing Club and won first place in her division. 

She is a graduate of Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, a ’95 Leadership Las Vegas Graduate by the Las Vegas Chamber of Commerce and holds a certificate from the MGM Diversity Champion program.

An Illinois native who moved to glitzy Las Vegas in 1992 and now living since 2018 in a South Florida tropical paradise, she loves volunteering for her favorite charities, dining out as a foodie, supporting small businesses, entrepreneurs and farmers markets, paddle boarding, snorkeling, hiking beaches, mountains, nature preserves, exploring state/national parks and traveling with her husband.