Hi, I’m Melissa.
I work in digital strategy, but my best ideas still happen around campfires, riverbanks, and trailheads with questionable reception. I’m the Web and Visual Strategy Manager at Cornell Cooperative Extension and an MPS student in Cornell’s Department of Global Development, studying how communities prepare for — and communicate through — disasters.
Outside of work, I write, play folk-inspired instruments, and indulge in a rotating lineup of outdoor and eclectic hobbies.
At the center of everything I do is a mix of creative obsession and a quiet existential crisis about the state of the world — a combination that keeps me curious and committed to building what I can while I’m still here.
Looking for more? Choose your own adventure:
Who is an archer
Note: I originally wrote this post in 2023. I'm not currently teaching archery at the University level, rather I'm focused on my JOAD program at Ithaca Archery. Where I teach at a university, a physical education credit is required for graduation, and one of my classes
Ecovillaging
I had the opportunity to assist a neighbor with the honey harvest this fall. If I wasn't already absolutely booked, I would 100% be planning my own hives.
BOW 2025 recap
You would think, being the daughter of a bowyer, I'd have grown up with a solid grounding in outdoor activities–and it's true that I did fish and camp as a kid (car camping anyway, and reel fishing in ponds), but my outdoor education was otherwise
