Melissa strives towards community excellence in all she does with her engaging nature and spirit to inspire collective action. She was born and raised in the area; the community she chose to follow her lifelong passion for helping others and raise her young family in.

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Melissa’s work has spanned a wide range of community services and has included developmental, employment and business improvement initiatives. She enjoys living in a community where we have the time to learn from and understand how we can help each other. Raising a young family here highlights her commitment to the future of our community.

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Melissa started her career in 2010 and has been a local Young Professional since returning from college in 2011. She is not a fan of sitting still for too long and that was proven when Melissa commuted to complete her BA in Psychology at Carleton while working full-time and running a small business. Following graduation she worked two full-time jobs and operated a small business to pay off student debt faster.

 

Melissa officially participated in YPN events in 2016, while working for the Employment + Education Centre, an active Brockville & District Chamber of Commerce member. In 2020 she was nudged by Pam, the Executive Director at the chamber to join us officially with their board call in 2020, this was shortly after starting work with Downtown Brockville BIA in 2019. The synergetic working relationships between the offices led her to claim one of two Young Professional Board of Director chairs on the Brockville & District Chamber of Commerce in 2022. Joining the board of directors at the chamber has shown Melissa new depths to our caring community. Melissa has entered her second term and is the newest chairperson of the Membership Committee and a member to the Hub Committee, in addition to the Young Professionals Executive where she leads as a strong advocate for young professionals in the business community. 

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Melissa has a strong vision for the potential of the Brockville YPN and has been working hard to help us actualize it.