Teach For America
Melanie B. Richards, PhD
VP, Insights, Planning & Analytics
"I had the pleasure of managing Melissa directly at Teach For America. I found her to be an incredible team leader, extremely proactive in her internal partnerships with other teams, a strong communicator, well-organized, thoughtful and thorough. While on my team, Melissa managed our marketing support for prospects, corps members and alumni. This included all campaign and field marketing activities to bring in our new corps members and all marketing efforts to keep them continuously engaged and feeling positively toward TFA. Melissa completed all of these efforts and was extremely successful, with Marketing beating the vast majority of our FY16 goals. I would highly recommend Melissa for her strong leadership, proactive approach, team building skills, strategic planning ability and her highly capable management of campaign execution."
VP, Insights, Planning & Analytics
"I had the pleasure of managing Melissa directly at Teach For America. I found her to be an incredible team leader, extremely proactive in her internal partnerships with other teams, a strong communicator, well-organized, thoughtful and thorough. While on my team, Melissa managed our marketing support for prospects, corps members and alumni. This included all campaign and field marketing activities to bring in our new corps members and all marketing efforts to keep them continuously engaged and feeling positively toward TFA. Melissa completed all of these efforts and was extremely successful, with Marketing beating the vast majority of our FY16 goals. I would highly recommend Melissa for her strong leadership, proactive approach, team building skills, strategic planning ability and her highly capable management of campaign execution."
Adam Rupe
Managing Director, Recruitment Marketing
"Melissa is a driven, empathetic, and thoughtful leader. Over three years as my manager she pushed me to grow professionally as a marketer and always kept our team grounded in shared goals and what was within our locus to control. Her ability to interpret and lead in a complex organization and marketplace empowered our team to take on increasingly more complex campaigns year after year—moving marketing from an afterthought at Teach For America to one of the fundamental components required to advance our organization’s charge. Any organization would be lucky to have her marketing and brand strategy leadership."
Managing Director, Recruitment Marketing
"Melissa is a driven, empathetic, and thoughtful leader. Over three years as my manager she pushed me to grow professionally as a marketer and always kept our team grounded in shared goals and what was within our locus to control. Her ability to interpret and lead in a complex organization and marketplace empowered our team to take on increasingly more complex campaigns year after year—moving marketing from an afterthought at Teach For America to one of the fundamental components required to advance our organization’s charge. Any organization would be lucky to have her marketing and brand strategy leadership."
Christina Lozano-Fier
Senior Managing Director, Project Management Office
"Working with Melissa over the last seven years, I've seen her build our recruitment marketing efforts to record-setting levels. Her ability to understand the big picture and develop effective strategy is made stronger by her deep understanding of how the marketing machine works in the deepest of details. Just this season, she led our nearly 30-person, cross-functional team to set a new bar for cross-channel campaign success, blasting past lofty goals set at the start of the season. She's a true gift to any team - I can't recommend her highly enough!"
Senior Managing Director, Project Management Office
"Working with Melissa over the last seven years, I've seen her build our recruitment marketing efforts to record-setting levels. Her ability to understand the big picture and develop effective strategy is made stronger by her deep understanding of how the marketing machine works in the deepest of details. Just this season, she led our nearly 30-person, cross-functional team to set a new bar for cross-channel campaign success, blasting past lofty goals set at the start of the season. She's a true gift to any team - I can't recommend her highly enough!"
Oddcast, Inc.
Yujin Kate Sohn
Senior Director of Marketing
"Melissa was a tremendous help for us to develop our online marketing program for the education market. She is a professional marketer, who is excellent at gathering and analyzing market data and also possesses great communications skills. Most of all, she is a team player, who is always punctual, responsible and positive. It was a great pleasure having her in our team."
Senior Director of Marketing
"Melissa was a tremendous help for us to develop our online marketing program for the education market. She is a professional marketer, who is excellent at gathering and analyzing market data and also possesses great communications skills. Most of all, she is a team player, who is always punctual, responsible and positive. It was a great pleasure having her in our team."
Kaplan Test Prep and Admissions
Kathy Tobiasen,
Vice President, Customer Enrollment and Experience
"Melissa is a results-driven manager. She has a strong ability to lead, motivate and accomplish through teams. She has excellent written and verbal communication skills and is a strong presenter."
Vice President, Customer Enrollment and Experience
"Melissa is a results-driven manager. She has a strong ability to lead, motivate and accomplish through teams. She has excellent written and verbal communication skills and is a strong presenter."
Douglas Lampart
National Director of Sales
"Melissa has incredible insight to people and strong business acumen.. She effectively used time and though she always placed the needs of the company first, she made her employees feel as they were her top priority. An asset to any organization."
National Director of Sales
"Melissa has incredible insight to people and strong business acumen.. She effectively used time and though she always placed the needs of the company first, she made her employees feel as they were her top priority. An asset to any organization."