Kristine Schellhaas

Kristine Schellhaas is an entrepreneur and nationally known advocate for military families. She is the founder of USMC Life an online information news resource for Marine Corp families.

Schellhaas founded and launched USMC Life in 2009 as a way to connect and educate military families during the daunting task of moving duty stations. She is a co-founder of #KeepYourPromise Alliance to advocate for military families on The Hill. She has dedicated thousands of volunteer hours helping military families aboard military installations as well as developing an online tool that provided its users with access to pertinent information for the whole family.

Within six years, she transformed USMC Life into a marketable business with organic website traffic of 2 million visitors a year, and several million people a month through social media.

In January 2015, Schellhaas sold USMC Life to Bright Mountain Media and remains aboard as the Editor-in-Chief, reaching 10 million people a year.

As well, Schellhaas, a military spouse herself, has served as a board member on the Military Family Advisory Network, the Military Officer Association of America’s (MOAA) Spouse Advisory Council, and numerous other volunteer positions within the Department of Defense’s Key Volunteer network. She was named AFI’s Military Spouse of the Year for military installations in 2013 and 2014 by Military Spouse Magazine.

She is a published author of an award-winning memoir entitled 15 Years of War, and the anthology Stories Around the Table: Laughter, Wisdom, and Strength in Military Life.

Schellhaas has both a BBA in Business Management and HR Management from Boise State University and has earned an MA in Organizational Leadership from Gonzaga University.