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Hi. We probably don’t know each other, and I’m not sure how you got here, but welcome to my website anyway.

My name’s Melissa, and I’m a writer who records myself paraphrasing my writing and puts it on the internet. (In fancy internet terms, I’m a video-blogger.) Basically, I talk about things that I feel are important (sometimes politics, sometimes social issues and often simply my own opinion), and, fortunately, that’s given me a lot of amazing opportunities. Sometimes I travel to political events, and I’ve had the pleasure of appearing on CNN, FOX NEWS and CBS. I feel very blessed to have the amazing adventures that I do, and for having met so many wonderful people in the process.

I grew up in Orange County California, but I was born in Trenton, New Jersey. I once lived in Portland, Oregon where I danced in a professional company and toured the country by air and by bus; after that I got a job that took me to Chicago, Paris and eventually Faleolo, Samoa. (That photo at the top is of me and my Samoan-little-brother Halé.)