Melissa is Executive Director at Valle Verde, a HumanGood Life Plan Community (LPC) in Santa Barbara serving more than 400 residents and 300 team members. Previously, Melissa was Vice President, Clinical Services at American Baptist Homes of the West (ABHOW), where she partnered with ABHOW’s 11 CCRCs to uphold the organization’s person-directed care philosophy statement. Before joining the ABHOW family, Melissa worked as a Project Guide for The Green House Project, a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation-funded national program transforming institutional long-term care.