Her teaching and research focuses on governance and strategic management of nonprofit organizations and cross-sector partnerships as policy implementation tools. Before coming to the Humphrey, Melissa was on the faculty at the Boston University School of Management, Associate Director of Yale University’s Program on Non-Profit Organizations, and the founder of two social service nonprofit organizations in Alaska where she also conducted statewide and national workshops on organizational planning, social policy development, and advocacy. Melissa’s favorite place to pubTalk – debate current issues and public affairs – is very early in the morning over coffee and the newspaper (yes, she still reads a paper copy of the news) with her husband, Paul.