About Melanie
I’m so thankful for each opportunity to encourage effective management practices in places that bless their communities, love their neighbors and respect the God-given dignity of each person.
My blend of professional and personal experience has left me uniquely suited to help ministry organizations implement policies, protocols and training designed to promote healthy and productive ministry environments, while adhering to both best management practices and the organization’s deepest values.
I am a former attorney. After graduating cum laude from Fordham Law School in 2003, I served in the counsel’s office of a federal law enforcement agency, where I provided guidance to agency managers on a variety of employment law topics, including workplace harassment and discrimination, misconduct, performance management and the accommodation of disability and religion. Subsequently, I left the practice of law, and conducted over 300 workplace investigations and led numerous anti-harassment and disability law training programs for federal supervisors.
As someone who has been deeply engaged in congregational life and ministry for over 30 years, including in campus fellowship, church planting, and mercy ministry settings, I “speak the language” of ministry organizations, and am thankful for each opportunity to encourage effective management practices in places that bless their communities, love their neighbors and respect the God-given dignity of each person.