Melissa Everett

Melissa Everett has made a career of helping people—and communities — figure out their “right livelihood.” As a career counselor and trainer of counselors, she has worked with populations that range from businesspeople to divinity students. Since the first publication of Making a Living While Making a Difference in 1995, she has been developing a distinctive framework for vocational empowerment that has drawn interest in the U.S., Asia, Europe and Latin America. From her own “day jobs” in nonprofit management, she has helped to finance and guide several environmental education organizations. Today, as Executive Director of Sustainable Hudson Valley, she works to redirect local and county economic development in support of environmental and community goals. Her Ph.D. is from Erasmus University in the Netherlands.