When her family moved to Denver, they purchased a house two blocks from the Denver Waldorf School and enrolled their daughter Alex in kindergarten. Within weeks, Melissa was hired as a substitute teacher. Upon a move back to California, she immersed in Foundation Studies at Rudolf Steiner College, became a class teacher at Davis Waldorf School, then joined the Humanities faculty at Sacramento Waldorf School in 2011. She has served on the College of Teachers, as the Director of Student Activities, as the Humanities Department Chair, and as an instructor for Waldorf Teacher Training. She deeply values the role education plays in the future of the world, and seeks to be an inspired contributor every single day.