Michelle Slafter is a staff accountant with FredrickZink & Associates and assists in the areas of audit, tax and accounting services. She joined the firm in 2006 as an intern and became a full staff member in 2007. 

Michelle grew up in Ridgway, CO where she helped out the family excavation business by providing bookkeeping services and operating heavy equipment.

Michelle moved to Durango in 2002 to attend Fort Lewis College. While attending college, she worked in the Office of Institutional Research assisting in data collection, entry, editing, analysis, and reporting. She was a member of two honor societies, Beta Gamma Sigma and Beta Alpha Psi, in which she was the reporting secretary for Beta Alpha Psi for a year. Through Beta Alpha Psi, she volunteered preparing tax returns in Durango. Michelle graduated in 2006, Magna Cum Laude, with a BA degree in Accounting. She is currently working toward her CPA certification.

Michelle enjoys rock and ice climbing, backpacking, and mountain biking with her boyfriend.