Melissa Lowe

Melissa worked at IATP as the executive assistant from 2015 to 2016.

Melissa comes to IATP from work in nonprofits and libraries having completed her Master’s in Library and Information Science from the University of Illinois in 2014. Originally from the Chicago area, she has lived all over the Midwest while attending college and graduate school. Her experiences in public service and development have demonstrated that libraries and nonprofits share many of the same challenges. She believes that all people are capable of participating in great change and that the greatest barrier to that impact is access to information. Opening channels of knowledge-sharing in all spheres improves each person’s ability to engage with the world more fully. IATP is concerned with sharing knowledge about the positive and negative impacts agriculture and farming have on communities and climate change and Melissa is delighted to participate in the process of working towards a healthier environment.