Melanie is a board member of the National Council for Mental Wellbeing (formerly the National Council for Behavioral Health), and is currently Vice Chair of the Public Policy committee. Additionally, she serves on several state level committees and was recently appointed by Florida Governor Ron DeSantis to his Re-Open Florida Task Force, and to the Statewide Task Force on Opioid Abuse.
Before joining the FBHA, she held a variety of positions with the Agency for Health Care Administration including bureau chief of Medicaid managed care. Melanie holds a BSN from the University of Florida, attended the graduate program in Nursing at University of Texas at Austin and has held numerous clinical positions in neuroscience in Florida and Texas.