Shelley Welsch started her professional career in the broadcast news business in 1975. She worked in local radio in St. Louis and Memphis, TN. She then spent ten years with ABC Network News in Washington D.C. and St. Louis where she worked as an assignment manager, producer, writer and special events producer. Highlights from her many productions include President Ronald Reagan’s radio addresses from the White House and Camp David, a documentary on the first Reagan-Gorbachev Summit, the 1986 Presidential caucuses and primaries, and special programming on the return of the bodies of Marines after the bombing of their barracks in Beirut, Lebanon.

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Welsch has been an active community volunteer for decades. She served on the City Council of University City for four years, and on numerous boards including the Literacy Council of Greater St. Louis and ALIVE (Alternatives to Living in Violent Environments)

She was one of the founders and the first Executive Director of the Green Center, a center for outdoor environmental education and the arts located in University City, MO.

Welsch has a B.A. in History from the University of Missouri – St. Louis. She is married to architect Bill Chilton and has one daughter, Madeleine Chilton.

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