Melinda is an award-winning reporter, copywriter, and editor who specializes in health and wellness media.

She has spent the majority of her career at Everyday Health Group, where she has worn many different hats, and is currently an editorial director at the company. In this position she oversees lifestyle and wellness content strategy and manages an editorial team of six people who create engaging, accurate, and top-performing content for two major health brands: Everyday Health and Lose It!.

Her written work has appeared on EverydayHealth.com, FoxNews.com, as well as in SELF magazine, Weight Watchers Magazine, and on Babble.com and Patch.com. It has also appeared in the Orlando Business Journal and the Ocala Star-Banner.

She received her bachelor's degree in journalism from the University of Florida, and was the lifestyle editor and university editor at the Independent Florida Alligator, the largest student-run paper in the U.S. 

She has also edited and written sponsored content at Babble.com (published on the web) and the global content marketing firm Media Planet Publishing (published in USA Today, the Washington Post and the Chicago Tribune). 

In her spare time, she enjoys running, doing yoga, hiking, drinking wine, and reading.

She currently lives in Rochester, New York.