Melissa is the owner and CEO of Coleman Associates. Melissa started with Coleman when she was a pre-Med student and the team leader of her CHC’s process redesign team in the late 90’s. She was much younger then too. In the 2000s, mentored by Roger Coleman, Melissa managed the majority of the Coleman Associates social services work (food stamps, Medicaid, Immigration), as well as Access & Improvement collaboratives.

As CEO, Melissa has shepherded Coleman’s growth and developed many firsts: performance Dashboards, a tailored model for private practices, a specialty care access program, a concretized Tactical Nurse™ training program, the indispensible MA program, and architectural partnerships, and the Coleman online learning management system

Melissa started her work life as a nanny and then a high school janitor. She has continued to serve and care for others evder since. Besides her clinical skills and experience in the public health setting, Melissa has also worked for an insurer, a healthcare marketing firm, and in the hospital setting where she worked as a Spanish interpreter and developed a Cultural Diversity and Interpretive Services Department. When not on an airplane, Melissa can be found in Boulder, where she loves to tap into her farm family upbringing by gardening and cooking. Or in Todos Santos, Mexico with her esposo.

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter. -Martin Luther King Jr.